Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] many year " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 If the work is to be comprehensive , thoroughly researched and well constructed it will take many years .
5 It will take many years to phase out existing cars that run on high octane leaded petrol .
6 This exercise can not be completed overnight ; it will take many years to accomplish .
7 Hunting has now been banned , but experts fear it will take many years for their populations to recover .
8 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 .
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