But one possibility,he says, is that it may take time away from activities that could help prevent depression, like sports and socializing.

VOA: special.2009.02.11

What it means is I don't want to take unique time that we could be discussing other things in class by covering things that you could have read already.

这只说明我不想在课上单独花时间,来讲你们可能已经看过的东西,这个时间可以用来讨论其他内容

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

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

"But the problem on the relief well is not simply drilling all the way down, it is also connecting it up, and that is a delicate operation that could take some time."

VOA: standard.2010.07.16