But Professor Hatfull is hopeful this will take months and not years.

VOA: special.2009.03.25

So she's going to have to stop working in a couple of months to take care of the baby.

几个月以后她就不能再工作，要开始照顾孩子了。

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Building a coalition to form a new government could take months.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

Sometimes they take months to develop inside the seedpods.

VOA: special.2010.04.06

Local officials say it could take months to clean up the pockets of devastation.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

It's going to take months." But,he insists, the village of Leone will recover.

VOA: standard.2009.10.04

The White House says it is preparing for the worst. Experts say the most effective solution involves drilling relief wells to reroute oil, a process that could take months.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31

"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

And that process,say experts, may take months.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

The chairman of the Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan, Ahmad Nader Nadery,tells VOA that resolving the issue of the disputed ballots could delay certifying the election by weeks, but should not take months as some are suggesting.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

But she decided to take three months off from work at an advertising company to visit her birthplace,India.

VOA: special.2009.08.10

In one study,infected mothers began to take three anti-H.I.V.drugs while breastfeeding for up to six months.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

But some take effect quickly. For example,in six months the new law will bar insurance companies from denying coverage to children with pre-existing health conditions.

VOA: special.2010.03.24

A report could take six months to a year.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

These changes, however,will not take effect for nine months.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

That could take several months.

VOA: special.2010.04.26

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

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

For their part, the squatters hope to take advantage of a French law preventing authorities from evicting tenants during the winter months.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

Nuclear experts have said it would take several months to get the facility operating again.

VOA: standard.2009.04.15

It will take a few months of road testing to confirm Leonhardt's cost estimates.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

The decision came a day after President Manuel Zelaya urged U.S.leaders to take tougher actions in condemning his removal from power more than two months ago.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

Federal officials say stopping the oil flow could take weeks or even months.

VOA: standard.2010.05.02

If,in the best-case scenario, that may only take two to three months.

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

In the worst-case scenario it could take six months or longer,"

VOA: standard.2009.04.28

"That will be restored over the next few weeks months as the policy efforts that have been put in place begin to take effect and people really see that it makes a difference.

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

"Those are the complaints that we are actually dealing with at this point in time." VOA News asked Kippen if the on-site investigations of massive ballot box stuffing and other acts of election fraud will take weeks or,as some predict, months to complete.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

That translates into "Unfortunately, despite the most recent indicators that suggest the recovery may be in sight somewhat earlier than we were expecting only a few months ago, it will take far for the recovery to materialize in terms of significant improvement in the labor market,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

"President Obama visited our area this week, and it was my hope that he would listen,really listen, to what the people are saying, I have been in Congress 16 months, but it does not take that long to figure out that Washington does more talking than listening."

VOA: standard.2010.05.15