Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a lesson the activity mode may stay the same throughout or it may change several times . |
| 2 | This amazing posture displays its markings even more conspicuously and in this position it may advance several feet towards the attacker . |
| 3 | It may involve three or more subjects studied separately but in parallel , as in the Scottish general degree or some polytechnic/college ‘ combined studies ’ degrees ; or it may integrate several subjects in relation to some area , period , theme or problem , in which case it may be called interdisciplinary ; or it may consist of a more open , modular system of requirements and options . |
| 4 | It may take several releases and many months before the company starts to see a return on its investments , so it is essential for an indie to have a relatively solid financial base to see it through the difficult early stages and to sustain the levels of promotion until an act on the label breaks . |
| 5 | A reasonable duration period should therefore be set for MINTEG otherwise it may take several runs before anything is deleted . |
| 6 | It may take several operations . |
| 7 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 8 | The activities of moth larvae feeding on the fur or feathers binding the pellets together result in their breakdown even in dry conditions , although it may take several years for pellets to completely disintegrate . |
| 9 | There is also the possibility that the invention represents only a modest ( but nonetheless patented ) improvement on the employer 's existing products ; hence it may take several years simply to recoup the research and development costs . |
| 10 | Not everyone suits the same kind of photographic style , and it may take several tries before you find a picture that eventually gets you noticed . |
| 11 | It may occur several times within an organism 's lifetime , sometimes within a span of hours or even minutes . |
| 12 | For example , McDonald 's apple pie ( presumably made with apples ) when analysed contained no vitamin C , when according to standard food values it should contain several milligrams . |
| 13 | Xerox Corp , figures , page five , says it expects the European economy to remain weak for the rest of the year , but Xerox forecasts ‘ some encouraging signs of recovery ’ in Japan for the remainder of 1993 ; the plan to leave the financial services business remains on track but it might take several years . |
| 14 | The time needed to reach a solution to a problem is much longer ( i.e. it could take several hours or even days ) than the implementation/repair ( i.e. replacing a module or a board/panel can take only 30 minutes ) . |
| 15 | Once upon a time it could take several hours to install a network interface card . |
| 16 | If you try working out the return on a single room , using the well-known 1:1,000 room rate:room cost ratio , assuming a realistic annual occupancy rate ( say 65 per cent ) and providing for interest and tax , you will realize that it could take several decades to recover the original cost . |
| 17 | A spokesman for Pilkington , the major glass manufacturer , said yesterday that it could take several weeks for new windows to be installed . |
| 18 | No , but it could have several cheeks , quite often yes . |
| 19 | It would take several minutes at least to get back to the Bridge . |
| 20 | Further impractical solutions include forbidding obese people to reproduce : the effect of this would be surprisingly small , and it would take several generations of extremely unpopular enforced birth control to even halve the rate of obesity in the population . |
| 21 | It will take several decades to reduce dioxin levels in the environment by a significant amount . |
| 22 | The performance , broadcast on Radio 3 , was by Ernst Kovacic with the BBC Philharmonic , conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk , and seemed to do justice to a score so full of beautiful music that it will need several hearings before one begins to identify all its jewels . |
| 23 | Attitudes in excess of this will cause the gyro to topple , and it will require several minutes to re-erect . |
| 24 | While this is going on ( and it can last several days ) the pair occasionally break off their courtship ritual and return to their chosen spawning site . |
| 25 | It can take several minutes for the Goblin to pick his target , at which point he folds his wings back and starts to plummet , yelling wildly as the speed of his descent drives his small Goblin brain wild . |
| 26 | It can take several hours to kill an entire whale group which may number several hundred individuals . ’ |
| 27 | It can take several days of fine weather to dry out . |
| 28 | As we have already seen , it can take several years for a product to come on stream , let alone break even in reported accounts ; seven or more years is possible in some industries ( see Tomkins et al. , 1978 ) . |
| 29 | The ponderous patent application process seems to be unsuited to a fast- moving technology as it can take several years from initial application before a patent is finally granted . |
| 30 | There are particular muscles which seem to carry most of the burden , and it can take several sessions to help them become relaxed . |