Complex sentence: To pack the more than 30,000 items, it took 35 undergraduate students 2 years using 10,000 cubic feet of Styrofoam peanuts and 1,785 boxes and 144 crates.
Split into simpler sentences: To pack the more than 30,000 items took thirty-five undergraduate students two years. The packing job took 10,000 cubic feet of Styrofoam peanuts, 1,785 boxes, and 144 crates.