But such fast trains would take a long time to put in place in the United States.

VOA: special.2011.02.11

Professor Kaufman says it could take the slow-growing coral as long as one hundred years to recover.

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Anders Wilhelmson says the sanitation process can take as little as a couple of hours or as long as two to four weeks.

VOA: special.2010.03.15

The roads are good, a driver can see far -- and a trip hundreds of kilometers long can take just a few hours.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

Visitors who choose not to take long walks can leave the small bus at different stops.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

But it did not take long for the health care meeting to become heated.

VOA: special.2010.02.27

"No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory...

VOA: special.2011.06.02

They will have to tell how long and how much it would take to pay off a card if the holder makes only the lowest monthly payment.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Long-period comets,however, may take several hundred years to orbit the sun.

VOA: special.2011.02.09

Officials say the improvements could take as long as two years.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

And mixed economic signals continue to call into question how long it will take for the country to emerge from recession.

VOA: standard.2010.01.06

Why did it take so long to realize that released prisoners were involved in the planning of this?

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

The hope is that it will not take too long, for fear a power vacuum could develop.

VOA: standard.2010.03.07

But Sinclair-Thompson adds it is unclear how long it may take the airline industry to recover.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28