Sentence examples for may take centuries from inspiring English sources

Studies of landfills suggest they may take centuries to rot away.

Much plastic waste is washed into the ocean, where it may take centuries to fully degrade.

Sea birds live a long time and breed slowly; a colony wiped out in years may take centuries to return.

Even if we stop acid rain tomorrow, it may take centuries for our forests and lakes to recover from accumulated acids and mercury.

Full recovery may take centuries, but once it begins we will have a shining example of how past mistakes can be undone on a grand scale.

Trawling fits the bill, the petition argues, because a single pass of a net can level habitats that may take centuries to recover.

Our study demonstrates that in a landscape where the extinction debt has already been paid and only a small fraction of ancient forest is left, the recovery of forest specialist diversity in post-agricultural forests may take several centuries.

These modifications have pushed ecosystems across thresholds of change that may take decades, centuries or millennia to reverse, with their effects influencing both land management practices and biodiversity for the foreseeable future.

"It may take a century for us to reach back to the level when I was a student in medical school," said Dr. Aisha Siam, 38, one of two physicians at Kandahar's biggest medical center, the Chinese Hospital, who are women.

Carey can't resist indulging in a fair bit of foreshadowing: Parrot's common-law wife falls prey to a subprime mortgage broker, and when Olivier says that "it may take a century but le fou viendra", his creator surely has George W Bush in mind.

We are still "quite early" in a digital revolution, he insists, which may take a century or two to fully work itself out.