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

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You had to be very confident because it was going to take a long time, a fantastic amount of labor, a tremendous amount of money to do that.

你不得不相信,建造一座蜂巢墓要花费很长时间,大量的劳动力,以及庞大的金钱支持

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But it's going to take a long time, I think.

虽然这会花费很长的一段时间。

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Distributed-energy systems are developed piecemeal over a long period of time and often require investments that take a long time to yield meaningful returns.

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"They seem to think that it will take a long, long time to develop anything, " he says.

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If the foreigners plan to underprice the locals by operating on a larger scale, it will take a long time and a lot of investment in a shrinking market.

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