American officials say it will take at least two years for what one official called a meaningful measure of progress toward long-term stability.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

Does it really matter to you whether your code is going to take 300 years or 900 years to run?

或者900年区别大么？,这个数字的规模才是问题关键所在？

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

I've been taking the train for the past, say, give and(or) take six years and I've always loved it.

我以前一直坐火车，大约6年里都乘坐它，我一直很喜欢它。

方便的欧洲之星 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

It is expected to take ten years and more than eleven billion dollars to finish the job.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

It's gonna take, as I mentioned earlier, probably 10 to 20 years. These years will be very interesting and I look forward to them. Thank you!

那会花费，如我先前提到的，可能,10到20年的时间，这些年会非常有意思,我很期待，谢谢！

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

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

VOA: special.2010.08.10

Here's a, actually here it did take 25 years, but they did, they did eventually step on before we started drinking 7-Up.

这个过程，这个过程真的花了二十五年的时间，但是他们做到了，他们在我们喝七喜之前制止了加锂的行为。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

He is working to develop disease-resistant plants, but he says it will probably take five years.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

You can take everything from the last ten years of 3.091 and make it microdots.

你还能包含3。091最近十年的内容,然后把他做成微点。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

It will take years to complete all of the containers.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

You don't want--you know that you'd like to take money away from yourself in the high-outcome years and give it to yourself in the low-income years.

你不想...你知道,你想在高收入的年份中,拿出一点钱,给你自己低收入的年份

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

She says it probably will take about two years after the pandemic has ended for the true figure to be established.

VOA: standard.2009.12.29

The death of the other man doesn't take place until 20,30,40,whatever it is,years later.

那个人的死亡发生在20，30，或者40年后。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For example, if one bracket a second was filled out, it would take 292 trillion years to fill out all possible brackets,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Well, a cross-sectional study would mean that you'd get a random group of the population and measure them in 1970 and then take another random group five years later and measure them, but it wouldn't be the same people necessarily, it would be different groups of people.

那么,横断面研究就是,1970年你在人群中随意选择一组人,并记录下相关数据,然后,五年后再随意选择一组人记录数据,但这不需要是同一组人,通常是不同的人

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

And that's just not there anymore." Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says it will take years to rebuild L'Aquila delicate,urban and artistic heritage.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

And an interesting piece of data is that the students reported that one of the primary values that they got out of the course was the opportunity to get to know people throughout the company that it would take them years to get to know on their own.

一个有趣的现象是,学生们报告称,该课程带给他们,最大的收获之一就是,借此机会认识了,全公司的人，而今后,他们会继续加深了解。

麻省理工公开课 - 媒体、教育、市场课程节选

He doubts it will take place this year or even in a few years from now.

VOA: standard.2010.05.20

The whole idea of insurance is that you take from your good years and you move it into your bad years so that you make it through all your years.

保险的中心思想是,牺牲好年景的部分财富为坏年景提供保障,这样你就不再忧虑年景的好坏

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

He adds that Turkey will own 77 percent of the project and Iran 23 percent, and that it will take three years to complete.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Admiral Mullen acknowledges , that it may take years to fully defeat the Afghan insurgency.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

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

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

However,he acknowledged that the unemployment rate is the highest it has been in 25 years, and he said it will take time for the economy to turn around.

VOA: standard.2009.05.09

Gardere says it will take at least four years to recoup his losses, but he is quick to point out that Barbancourt lost more than just business in the earthquake.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

"As I've said from the day I took office, it's going to take months, even years, to dig our way out - and it's going to require an all-hands-on-deck effort."

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

The number-two military man at the Pentagon, General James Cartwright, said it would probably take several more years for Iran to take that highly enriched uranium and develop a usable weapon.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

"People ask me,' How long did it take you to write that book? ' The answer is,'Sixty-eight years.'" The book consists of 600 essays by Milner - some done in consultation with other experts in the many fields shaped by Darwin's thinking ." .

VOA: standard.2009.11.25