Example sentences of "it may [vb infin] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If one of the big parties wins something close to a majority of seats , it may have two ways of avoiding dependence on either Catalans or Basques .
2 It may take two kilometres to overtake one other rider .
3 It may take five minutes of real time to play the match .
4 It may take five years , he wrote , or it may take ten , or a hundred or a thousand , but sooner or later everything in the mausoleum will be affected and everything in all the other mausoleums in the city , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the country , and everything in all the other mausoleums in the world .
5 But it may take three months , so you are three months possibly on a ventilator .
6 It may include three courses taken at the first year level only , or a second double or less frequently a second treble , ie
7 If the warren system is a big one it may require two guns to do the killing .
8 If the wood is very badly stained , it may require two applications of bleach .
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