Example sentences of "[pron] take [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the H-bomb , carried in long-range bombers which took several hours to fly from base to target , was already outdated by the end of the Fifties . |
| 2 | The loco went down the embankment taking some of the tanks with it , and the wreckage together with trees standing in the field were enveloped in flames which took several hours to extinguish . |
| 3 | Similarly , it takes several hours before ozone is formed from photochemical actions involving oxides of nitrogen and volatile organic compounds ( hydrocarbons ) . |
| 4 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 5 | Cooling water pumps were incapacitated , and even though the twin reactors were shut down , it took many hours for the operators to successfully control the residual heat in their cores . |
| 6 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 7 | The courthouse windows were open but the radiators below them were hot ; it took several hours for any changes in setting to make themselves felt through the massive heating system , and it was impossible to keep up with the irrational temperament of the month . |
| 8 | ‘ No , it took some hours before we dragged the body from beneath a mound of soggy corpses . |