Example sentences of "take several months " in BNC.
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| 1 | If relearning to walk safely takes several months , going out in a wheelchair alone can prevent the patient from feeling too housebound and frustratingly dependent on other people for his mobility . |
| 2 | It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored . |
| 3 | He says that the polishing takes several months . |
| 4 | The process takes several months but eventually , when the tube is complete , a sperm cell is produced from the remains of the pollen grain . |
| 5 | And because it takes several months , and often a year or more , before a lender seeks to repossess , the 1991 repossession figures reflect the interest rates charged in 1990 . |
| 6 | The changes will take several months to make much difference to most people 's lives ( price controls remain on basic foods , heating and transport ; the auctions of small businesses will begin only at the end of January ) . |
| 7 | Roots will grow from around the edges of the base , but can take several months to develop . |
| 8 | All three deposit their surveys at the ESRC Data Archive at the University of Essex , but the data arrives in a form that can be quite hard to read , and it can take several months for the Archive to be able to supply even small amounts of the raw data in a form usable on most college computers . |
| 9 | One office was burned out completely , and with it some fairly important papers that would take several months , research to restore . |
| 10 | Investigations can take several months , ending in a formal report which will be sent to you . |
| 11 | ‘ Preparations for a concert on the same scale as Madness in Finsbury Park , including securing a licence from the local council , will take several months , ’ said the source . |
| 12 | Can do , it can take several months before it comes out . |
| 13 | The appeal could take several months , particularly in cases where a local inquiry was held . |
| 14 | The application will take several months ( or longer ) to come on for hearing . |
| 15 | The doctors had told him he must take several months off from the exhausting business of running a supremely successful nightclub , for the sake of his health , and looking at him now she could see all too clearly the deeply etched lines on his face , the distinct greyness of his skin . |
| 16 | It took several months for that to come home and safe . |
| 17 | It took several months to obtain approval and construction work started only in August 1984 . |
| 18 | All adjudications took several months and none was successful . |
| 19 | Charging up the smallest rod with deuterium took only two days , the 2 mm rod took a week and the 4 mm one took a month ; an 8 mm rod took several months to charge before any detailed experimental measurements could begin . |
| 20 | The British plan being a scientific destruction of military targets , as opposed to the Nazi 's indiscriminate methods , our personnel go through a course of instruction taking several months . |
| 21 | The tunnel had taken several months to build and some of the accusations which had been made against these same people now looked rather silly . |
| 22 | It seems to have taken several months for the message to sink in that here was plenty to worry about , with deep implications for the inhabitants of planet Earth . |
| 23 | It has taken several months of cajoling to persuade the enigmatic political advisor Philip Gould to give an interview . |
| 24 | The decision in Cabinet ( Conseil Restreint sur l'Espace ) in November 1972 to develop the rocket launcher that would subsequently become Ariane was taken several months before the then European space body ( the CSE : July 1973 ) gave its go-ahead . |
| 25 | Following the Supreme 's Court 's endorsement of Noonan 's ruling , the case was due to return to the Appeals Court to be reviewed by a panel of judges , a process which was expected to take several months . |
| 26 | The process of identification was expected to take several months but human rights groups were confident that it would provide evidence of indiscriminate killing . |
| 27 | The operation is expected to take several months . |