After the whale was dead, the sailors would then slowly and with great effort take it all the way back to the ship.

VOA: special.2011.06.29

They had proved that people could live and work in space for the time it would take to get to the moon and back.

VOA: special.2009.06.24

Panico says it will take another six to 12 months to finish the job of building back better.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

I don't think it's going to hold Toyota back or take anything away from their brand loyalty."

VOA: standard.2010.01.28

Gardere says it may take four years for production to get back to pre-earthquake levels.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

And I think it's important to take a break and come back to it.

VOA: standard.2010.01.31

"I think people really like to be challenged when they go to the cinema and you watch it and you want to go back again and take more from it."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"So I urged these institutions here today to go back and take a third and fourth look about how they are operating when it comes to small business and medium sized business lending,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

"You might take this as a general principle, that if you have revolutionary transformations, it's extremely difficult to go back to legal,legitimized, constitutional transfers of power that revolutionary settlements, in fact,are quite dangerous as a precedent.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Democrat Carolyn Maloney asked him about economist's predictions that it would take the country to full employment: "Assuming that jobs are created at 2.8 million jobs per year, the best job creation of any administration, and this was achieved by former President Clinton, how long would you expect it to take us to get back to full employment?" "Well,without offering an opinion on that 10.7 million jobs, at that rate though, it would be about three years."

VOA: standard.2009.12.05