1.   Amateur investors have been so burned by the bear market that it may take a generation for them to regain interest in stocks.

2.   Advocates of the promised land of tech prep say the contemplated changes are so broad that it may take a generation to put them all into effect.

3.   But even with spacecraft hundreds of times faster than those in existence today, travel even to the realm of the nearest star could take generations.

4.   But it took a generation to lay this narrow, now disused track.

5.   But the cultural changes ultimately needed to sustain a functioning civil society and a market-based economy may take a generation.

6.   But they never took my generation into the woods like that.

7.   Even if the war ended now, the country will take a generation to solve this issue.

8.   For starters, it may take a generation simply to develop the required legal infrastructure and an independent accounting profession.

9.   Genuine peace could take a generation or more to build, it was thought.

10.   It took a few generations of warfare, but the British finally relinquished three-quarters of the island in the early part of this century.