Example sentences of "it [modal v] take many [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the story says simply what it may take many pages to explain in words . |
| 2 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 3 | George Romanes , the evolutionist , physiologist and early comparative psychologist , declared in 1887 that ‘ we must look the fact in the face … it must take many centuries for heredity to produce the missing five ounces of the female brain ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The half life of the parietal cell is 23 days in rats and presumably much longer in man and therefore it could take many months for resoluion of an increased parietal cell mass . |
| 6 | It would take many pages to list all the ones which have been identified by researchers today , but the phenomenon was not just confined to recordings . |
| 7 | No doubt the threat of national paralysis seemed much worse than it was : after all it would take many weeks for the full effects of a national strike to have an impact . |
| 8 | He told us that it would take many weeks to sort out and would involve a variety of procedures , such as a medical , reports from the school and visits . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Clearly at a basic level if you just gave someone a board and lake to practise on , apart from being dangerous it would take many months of frustration for them to work out what to do . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the work is to be comprehensive , thoroughly researched and well constructed it will take many years . |
| 13 | It will take many years to phase out existing cars that run on high octane leaded petrol . |
| 14 | This exercise can not be completed overnight ; it will take many years to accomplish . |
| 15 | Hunting has now been banned , but experts fear it will take many years for their populations to recover . |
| 16 | Whatever the treatment , remember it will take many weeks to take effect . |
| 17 | It can take many forms and should not be underestimated . |
| 18 | But it can take many months and , as Wendy realised , the longer she waited , the harder it would be to trace Eva . |
| 19 | In the earliest phase of a mental disorder , relatives feel puzzled and bewildered by what is happening , and it can take many months or even years before deteriorating social function gives way to overt symptoms which can be clearly interpreted as mental illness . |
| 20 | It can take many ejaculations to clear sperm already in tube . |
| 21 | 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 . |