Example sentences of "would take [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 23 the veteran Texan oil firefighter Red Adair had claimed that the task of capping oil fires would take five years . |
| 2 | The giant Redwood can grow to 300 ft , although that would take 200 years . |
| 3 | Although admitting to the Kuomintang General Chang Fa-k'uei that he was a communist , he apparently persuaded him that it would take fifty years for communism to work in Vietnam ; and , in any event , it appeared that , of all the groupings of Vietnamese nationalists , patriots , émigrés and revolutionaries who were to be found in Southeast China , none of them was as dynamic as the Vietminh . |
| 4 | If the map of Leicestershire were a face it would have a few small pimples on its chin and they would take fifty years to come to a head . |
| 5 | As I said , it would take fifty years before any decision we reach here , even made an impression on the one percent of land we do own . |
| 6 | Thus if you set aside £25 per month it would take two years to accumulate the £600 minimum for the Gift Aid scheme . |
| 7 | He said that planning permission for a new pit would take two years and would normally involve a public inquiry . |
| 8 | It would take two years to decide whether the country would leave the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) , he said , but it was hoped that Namibia would be able to set up " a foreign exchange control system more liberal than the one which we must accept at present " . |
| 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 | However , it has been suggested that on the present basis it would take 46 years to clear the backlog in housing disrepair … |
| 11 | At a completion rare of one percent per annum the total task would take 100 years . |
| 12 | The sediment would allow diffusion at a rate of only I metre per 10 years , and ocean circulation would take 100 years to introduce radionuclides into the human environment once radionuclides enter the water column . |
| 13 | On the Cairngorm plateau the pressure of walkers ' feet on rare mosses and lichen continues to damage a sub-arctic habitat that would take 100 years to repair — if it had the chance . |
| 14 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 15 | The scale of the proposals meant that the implementation would take several years to complete . |
| 16 | In Britain an oak would take twenty years to reach such a state . |
| 17 | In Britain an oak would take twenty years … ’ |
| 18 | of businesses in the region use the line and that it would take seven years to electrify from the date of commitment , it is essential that this project is linked into the Bill . |
| 19 | The Canadian researchers say that tests on animals are needed , but such work would take some years . |
| 20 | It was fully recognised by the Government , moreover , that it would take some years for normal conditions to be restored . |
| 21 | He said the conversion would take three years and the pitfalls were unknown . |
| 22 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 23 | The Immigration and Absorption Minister Yair Tzaban met the marchers 25 km outside Ashkelon , when he said that it would take three years to provided permanent housing for the 20,000 recent Ethiopian immigrants [ see also pp. 38174-75 ] . |
| 24 | Accordingly , the total commission payable to the plaintiff in respect of a policy effected through his introduction would take ten years to accrue . |
| 25 | It has been alleged that at this rate it would take 300 years to examine all the programmes outlined in Table 15.1 above . |
| 26 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 27 | That he has books , videos etc to do — lots of things that would take 30 years to do . |
| 28 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |