The effort started ten years ago, and it’s now starting to show significant results.
What does it refer to here in the sentence?
1) The effort
2) to show significant results
What do you native English speakers think? Thank you so much as usual in advance.
It refers to "the effort". (2) is not a possible interpretation.
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