You ask how many years to rebuild, if this turns out to be a false alarm?

In terms of confidence, it will take years to rebuild.

A year of calm, two years, and we'd have rebuilt all the hospital stuff.

Their military machine is broken and will take some 20 years to rebuild to pre-911 levels.

What war destroys in an instant takes years to rebuild.

It will take years to rebuild the camp, but this first rebound summer was a success.

Catch too many fish, and it takes years to rebuild the fishery.

To me, it's going to take I don't know how many years to rebuild what they destroyed.

It will take years to rebuild the industry and expand reasonable production.

It will, however, take years to rebuild the economies of these countries which were, in any case, desperately poor.