Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] some time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trade gap looks appalling and it may take some time before we see a significant drop in consumer spending . |
| 2 | It may take some time ! |
| 3 | It may take some time before a beginner experiences it , but performance will not become efficient until she does . |
| 4 | Because he does n't drive a car , it may take some time . |
| 5 | The potential mobility of non-motorized persons is also enhanced , though it may take some time ( and , probably , more measures ) for the modal split to change significantly . |
| 6 | Jockey Club senior steward Lord Hartington said last night : ‘ We will certainly continue the campaign until we win but , sadly , it may take some time . |
| 7 | ‘ It may take some time . ’ |
| 8 | It may take some time to program this technique as it has to take into account all foreseeable circumstances . |
| 9 | ‘ The yacht is a rather slow model of course , so it may take some time for you to die . ’ |
| 10 | It may take some time before matters settle down again and action proceeds quasi-automatically according to revised schemas . |
| 11 | Bear in mind that it may take some time for the police to arrive . |
| 12 | So I think it may take some time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It may take some time to discover anything — if I can discover anything , that is . ’ |
| 14 | It may take some time to get the team of volunteers together again . |
| 15 | ‘ It 'll take some time , not today , ’ said Mr Reichmann following the briefing of bankers in Toronto on Monday afternoon . |
| 16 | I hope that the day when European defence does not rely solely on British and French deterrents will not come to pass , but there is clearly a risk that it could happen some time . |
| 17 | ‘ So it could take some time ? ’ |
| 18 | It could take some time . ’ |
| 19 | A governing party is apt to claim that it has a mandate for doing something which it said it would do in its election manifesto , or which it simply said it would do some time before being elected . |
| 20 | But can I refer to the honourable member for Truro er again he talked about P R , he thought that it would somehow , if we move that the there for this election it would save some time . |
| 21 | He said it would take some time to redress the imbalance in spending on black and white children when five times as much is still spent on each white child as on each black child . |
| 22 | It would take some time , but that did n't matter . |
| 23 | I knew it would take some time , so I asked my uncle to tell mother I would n't be home for a meal . |
| 24 | It would take some time for the news to get around . |
| 25 | I think the the the B W the Barton Willmore analysis appears to overlook the fact , and again Mr Jewitt referred to this when he referred to Easingwold , that settlement evolves over time , and and nobody seems to be addressing the point that that fourteen hundred , fifteen hundred , two thousand houses , however many it is , wo n't appear over night , erm er th it would take some time for that to be to be realized erm and as part of that there 's no clear view as to when the services will come along that are that are necessary to give that community the balance it it said it requires , erm , Mr Timothy from Wood Fram Frampton referred I think to a figure of twelve fifty dwellings for a viable new settlement , and there were plenty ex of of examples , quote , erm that one could look at to see that was the case , erm I I 'd be interested to know where those examples are an and what there make up erm is . |
| 26 | I 'm quite happy to go into that , we have all the information here , we can do it but it would take some time I suspect . |
| 27 | ‘ It will take some time , it always does , to change the economy . |
| 28 | Still , Fishko realises that his stable may not be an easy sell : ‘ It will take some time years probably ’ , he acknowledges . |
| 29 | ‘ Though it will take some time . |
| 30 | It will take some time to work out comprehensive and coherent common foreign and security policies . |