Sentence examples for takes two generations from inspiring English sources

It only takes two generations".

("They saw the Marxists there as a new wave," he wrote to George Mitchell. "When they were a last gasp. When an idea dies in Madrid it takes two generations for word to get to Managua").

It takes three generations of officers to build up a competent navy.

Of course, it will be said that the business-lounge polluters got their way, but it is a weak plot that takes three generations to succeed and works its subterfuge by feeding submissions to endless rounds of public consultation.

"Change could take two generations," he said.

Professor True said it often took two generations before reality caught up with changes in attitudes.

It took two generations of smokers to produce an explosion of respiratory cancer and emphysema, and we failed to take early decisive action.

Yet it took two generations for, say, the Rockefellers to amass their money and transform it into something of cultural value.

We've changed the world so much, it will take two generations to undo all the cool things we've done.

Discouragingly, it took two generations until a trade publication was able to declare in the 1880s that "every woman now knows how to use one".At about the same time, the increase in technological complexity gathered pace.

"It took three generations to do this to the environment," said Mr. Schwarze-Rodrian of the Ruhr Business Development Agency.