Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] [adj] [adj] years " in BNC.
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1 | and this particular project , a lot of hard work has gone into it by members of the parish council and er I think it 's perfectly appropriate , and the ground was bought , it was n't donated , er it 's come of the er erm the funds that parish council receives from er residents and I think that it 's perfectly appropriate that it should mark one hundred years of parish local government . |
2 | He added that it would take many more years to establish a healthy pattern of development , especially since there is no communications infrastructure . |
3 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |
4 | When he told Perkins his landlord of his case , and that it would be a pity to leave Solomon unfinished , Perkins blanched when he heard it would take another two years , gave him his fat hand and told him if the painting did not sell after two years , and Haydon still could not pay , ‘ … why , sir , we 'll consider what is to be done , so do n't fret , but work . ’ |
5 | However , he thought it would take another ten years of satellite measurements before the predicted temperature increases and climate changes could be confirmed . |
6 | The trouble with the Labour system is that it would spend many more years trying to introduce it before it could get rid of the poll tax . |
7 | These are useful cautions ; like the programmed learning advocates before them , there is a tendency among many in the educational technology school to oversimplify , to brush aside difficulties , and to state as proven doctrines it will take many more years of experiment and experience to establish . |
8 | It will take several more years before most of these guesses will be proved to have been right or wrong . |
9 | It will take another 20 years to complete the original link between the Severn and the Thames . |