Sentence examples for may take generations from inspiring English sources

The nation that relied on financial services may take generations to recover from their collapse.

It may take generations, they say, but God's promise will be fulfilled.

"They have created a real hatred for the police, and it may take generations to get over it".

"This may take generations — to get back to absolute reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the island of Ireland".

"A genie was let out of the bottle, which may take generations to put back in," the younger Soros wrote.

The longer it will take, and it may take generations, those will be lost in terms of political freedom and economic prosperity.

The struggle to heal the world may well take generations, Piercy warns, during which time even more of the world may be deeply wounded.

It may be a generation before states such as Alabama, Kansas and Utah join the club (actually, Utah may take several generations), but the Supreme Court's ruling is a watershed.

It may take several generations, but it is worth fighting for.

Second, when plants are hybridized, many favorable traits of interest are transferred along with undesirable traits such as poor quality or low yield potential.3 Due to the tight linkage of these genes, it may take several generations to segregate the undesired genes by back-crossing.

Having said this, there does remain a sense in which certain rights have always existed where there was any society, even though it may take many generations for these rights to be recognised by and granted to anyone — "just as one may hold reason to be eternal, and yet hold that it takes time for this or that being to become rational" (LPPO 103).