It will be a few years yet before we can determine whether these ambitions have borne fruit.

It takes years to reform institutions.

Recovery would take years.

In addition, it will take years for the recent budget increases to translate into new equipment.

It will take years to overcome the excessive indebtedness and real estate overhang that resulted.

While similar releases in Florida are years away, some locals have already reacted forcefully.

Recognizing that it will take years until banks are properly stabilized, America needs to build new conduits for credit.

This enabled a consumption binge, which meant that debt was created without a corresponding asset, and encouraged excessive investment in real estate, resulting in excess capacity that will take years to eliminate.

Absent local political will, and when confronted with a peace making project that may take years to complete, the US is virtually powerless.

Some trials may require longer time, others less.

Selling 2 trillion of reserves will take years.

The work on the supplement was expected to take about seven years.

This may take a while.

It may take some time, however, to overcome the destruction wrought upon this small Kurdish enclave.

Since 2005, an eleven year school programme has been replaced with a twelve year one primary education takes four years to complete (starting at age six), middle education (secondary) takes five years to complete upper secondary then takes three years.

These episodes occur on an irregular basis every few months and in most patients eventually subsides (although it can take many years).

Our experience is that, in the absence of an emergency situation, it takes two to five days depending upon the nature of the request.

It will take years and billions of dollars to change this state of affairs Calderón does not have the time, and only the US has the money.

3.2 The authors contend that an application for a parent visa made from outside Australia would take several years to resolve.

Changing it in detail. It takes about 30 hours on the average.

Of course, it may take some time for the Tamils and their leaders to learn the mutual tolerance and self discipline of democratic government.

It would take years of new car sales to make a dent in that number.

It often takes a few weeks before most symptoms resolve.

Today, Pluto remains on the list of planets in science textbooks, and who knows how long it will take for it to be removed.

Even the most flexible economy in the world would take years to switch one tenth of all of its factors of production from distributing imports to export oriented activities.

Considering that in some circumstances damage to the environment may take several years to occur, it was proposed that the limitations envisaged under the draft principle should take into account such lengthy time periods.

It would take several days, sometimes even a week, to service a single grain laden boat.

For others, actually setting those preferences or defining what they want may take more attention than they care to devote to the task.

It will take years for the world economy to return to trend, in particular as the growth outlook is not very promising and unemployment continues to rise in the US and Europe.

Urbanization in China may take generations to complete.

It officially started with a meeting on October 27 to 29, 2002, and was expected to take about three years.

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Over time but this could take years consumers could invest in alternative energy sources and reduce demand for fossil fuels via carbon taxes and new technologies.

Creating the first backup. This may take a while.

However, at the current rate of progress, it will take hundreds of years to disappear.

It will take decades, not a single season, to answer such questions.

Cambridge It may take a few months or a couple of years, but one way or another the United States and other advanced economies will eventually recover from today s crisis.

While the first dimension is measured in hours and days, the second occurs over weeks, months, and even years.

Comprehensive destruction is often the order and it may take decades to bring the work to completion.

Even with policy changes, it takes time for governments to restore their credibility.

It will take time before Iraq will play a regional role again.

While a relatively high and sustainable growth pattern can be achieved, it will take time.

(ii) It would take a great deal of time to incorporate the amendment and even longer for countries to ratify or accede to it (there are currently 134 parties to the New York Convention).

WASHINGTON, DC Banks and banking rely on trust. But while trust takes years to establish, it can be squandered abruptly if a particular bank s ethics are weak, its values poor, and its behavior simply wrong.

This took at least ten years in the first nuclear age, and this time may be no different.