Example sentences of "take [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 2 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 3 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 4 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |
| 5 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 6 | In strong soils these side effects may take some years to show up ; on poor land they can exhaust the humus very quickly with disastrous results . |
| 7 | He had been told from the start that recovery would happen , but it might take some years , so he felt their hopes were realistic . |
| 8 | The Canadian researchers say that tests on animals are needed , but such work would take some years . |
| 9 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 10 | Eventually they could become brittle with age , but this might take some years . |
| 11 | It will take some years to complete that process , but that is a necessary price to pay for the flexibility that the legislation gives us . |
| 12 | But while there may be a rapid rundown in drilling operations , it will probably take some years for the trickle-down effects to be felt from a spate of new projects spurred by tax changes . |
| 13 | ESA director general Reimar Luest retorted that US government space spending per person remained more than 10 times the level in Europe , and that space could not be left to private sector R&D : industry talks in terms of 6 or 7 years , whereas in space the returns may take 30 years . |
| 14 | That he has books , videos etc to do — lots of things that would take 30 years to do . |
| 15 | The work could take 10 years and will be the trust 's biggest single building conservation project . |
| 16 | The Government has recently accepted a recommendation by the British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine for a doubling in the number of trained consultants , currently 216 , but it will take 10 years before they are all in place . |
| 17 | Large-scale production will take 10 years . |
| 18 | But it can take 10 years for a material to get on the list while officials develop a standard , which specifies physical and chemical properties of materials . |
| 19 | At a completion rare of one percent per annum the total task would take 100 years . |
| 20 | The sediment would allow diffusion at a rate of only I metre per 10 years , and ocean circulation would take 100 years to introduce radionuclides into the human environment once radionuclides enter the water column . |
| 21 | It will take 100 years to change the mentality here . |
| 22 | On the Cairngorm plateau the pressure of walkers ' feet on rare mosses and lichen continues to damage a sub-arctic habitat that would take 100 years to repair — if it had the chance . |
| 23 | The forest will take 100 years to reach maturity |
| 24 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 25 | He said the conversion would take three years and the pitfalls were unknown . |
| 26 | THE historic Baltic Exchange building , severely damaged in last week 's IRA bomb blast , will not have to be torn down but may take three years to rebuild , said exchange chairman Peter Tudball yesterday . |
| 27 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 28 | It could take three years or even more , depending on the exact nature of the change and , of course , the priority given to it . |
| 29 | As to timescales , I have estimated that Project 1 will take one year full-time equivalent , and Project 2 will take three years full-time equivalent . |
| 30 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |