Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] many year " in BNC.
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1 | As recurrence may appear many years after the operation , however , long — though not particularly frequent — follow up is required . |
2 | Yet even on this issue we must be cautious : marriage was an irrevocable step ; though death almost as often and as rapidly parted married couples in the twelfth century as it does in the twentieth , a prince might well take careful thought before he threw the dice , just as , even then , a prudent man might spend many years looking for the woman of his choice . |
3 | Eugene Steuerle of the Urban Institute , who also favours increasing the exemption , accepts that it might take many years to reverse the effects of its shrinkage . |
4 | Minor items may spend many years at the various stages before being settled . |
5 | Reviving the moribund nuclear industry would be tough and unpopular , and could take many years to produce more power . |
6 | A deficiency in vitamin B12 may take many years to show , but it can prove fatal . |
7 | Later in your life you would spend many years attempting to disprove this thesis . |
8 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |
9 | Manufacturing processes which employ the very latest technology ensure high quality products which will give many years of reliable service . |
10 | As a result , you will spend many years with your new carpet , and so it is worth taking a little while making the right choice of carpet . |
11 | Happily , we will have many years to carry it out . |
12 | After a standard for TMC has been agreed , perhaps in 1991 or 1992 , it will take many years , perhaps five to ten , until RDS-TMC receivers first reach the market . |
13 | If the work is to be comprehensive , thoroughly researched and well constructed it will take many years . |
14 | The Brazilian cocoa research organisation , CEPLAC , has organised a series of expeditions in the Amazon region of Brazil , a vast area that will take many years to cover completely . |
15 | It will take many years to phase out existing cars that run on high octane leaded petrol . |
16 | By necessity changes will take many years to enact a , id consequently the present system will prevail for some time . |
17 | The European Community has laid down tough standards for water purity which will take many years to achieve in countries like the UK . |
18 | This exercise can not be completed overnight ; it will take many years to accomplish . |
19 | Hunting has now been banned , but experts fear it will take many years for their populations to recover . |
20 | However these also will require many years of development . |
21 | In some species males and females consort socially in long-term relationships that may last many years . |
22 | It is here that we do see examples of apparently selfless giving , where the carer 's independent life effectively is suspended for the duration of the caring relationship , which may last many years . |
23 | In this climate , the academic in English and other subjects in the humanities , who is busy , who publishes a lot , who goes to conferences , can not but be preferred to the quiet scholar , who keeps a low profile , even seems rather idle , but is taking his time over a major piece of scholarly writing that may involve many years ' work and which he does not intend to give to the world until he is ready . |
24 | On the other hand , they can take many years to achieve full bearing , occupy a lot of space and often have to be picked or tended from a ladder . |
25 | As the process proceeds many blood vessels become nipped and the scar tissue changes in colour from red to white which can take many years . |
26 | Learning by imitation can take place in a few minutes , whereas the reproduction of a whole new adult animal can take many years . |
27 | Finding this out is not a matter of one or two studies but can take many years . |
28 | The Swindon Works only closed in 1986 and since it can take many years for asbestos to affect people 's health , she expects to be dealing with similar cases well into the next century . |
29 | This period can last many years . |
30 | I was taught that a consultation in general practice can last many years . |