Example sentences of "it still [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 After the collapse of Law 's schemes his vast unified company was divided into its component parts again , but it still took some years for the French to recover in India .
2 That was a time when young and old had thronged the streets to welcome in a new century and , though anything with the 1800s about it was already as dead as history , it still took some years before the magical 19 in the date lost its strangeness and one would write it without a slight hesitation .
3 But even when unanimity is the genuine product of a free decision on the part of all , it still poses some problems .
4 The risk can be reduced by flying in the low tow position below the wake , but it still has some disadvantages and towing in this position has not been generally adopted in Europe or elsewhere .
5 The second , smaller , chest has clearly been ransacked but it still has some items inside .
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