Example sentences of "[pron] take [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before use , the trimmer must be fully charged , which takes two hours . |
| 2 | The " Long Tour " goes all the way from Zurich to Rapperswil and back , which takes 5 hours . |
| 3 | Sir Christopher Wren sits behind his desk , large as life and at least as natural , until a cloth is draped over the leather bound book concealing the projector , and his head is revealed as a white splodge which takes 80 hours of modelling . |
| 4 | the team was hoisted onto open trucks which took five hours to crawl the three mile distance from Lahore Airport to the Fortress Stadium with thousands and thousands of fans running alongside the procession . |
| 5 | Dustin had to suffer under a fourteen-piece latex mask , which took five hours a day to apply under the hot , steaming make-up lamps . |
| 6 | On the following day , Franco took the salute at a victory parade which took five hours to pass the towering dais on which he stood , flanked by military officers , Party officials , Church dignitaries and government ministers . |
| 7 | Their trip , which took 38 hours instead of the normal 22 , coincided with 60ft waves and the worst North Sea gales for almost a century . |
| 8 | I apologise to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department for being unable to attend at the start of the debate , due to the aggravated taking of British Rail , which took three hours to take me from York to the metropolis . |
| 9 | For the H-bomb , carried in long-range bombers which took several hours to fly from base to target , was already outdated by the end of the Fifties . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Too often the clinical teacher is looked upon as an interfering and critical representative of the school of nursing - and as one who takes three hours to teach a student how to take a blood pressure ! |
| 12 | We got to the 18th and there 's Greg Norman and Jack Nicklaus , who took five hours to get round ; we 'd done it in less than four , had a bit of lunch and more practice in that time ! |
| 13 | On 9 December judgment was delivered by the Chief Justice who took five hours to review the case . |
| 14 | Many of us who take 7 hours or more may be able to cope with less sleep without feeling sleepy , given training , but only those of us who were sleeping more than we really " needed " to . |
| 15 | They took 4½ hours to beat Chris Palmer , John Thurlbeck and John Leeman from the Co Durham club , Stanley , 19–11 . |
| 16 | They took five hours to get it out ; and there was a man in the next room who was not so lucky as I was . |
| 17 | They take eighteen hours all told , including the overnight soaking . |
| 18 | It takes 4 hours in each direction , and there is plenty to see as you drift through a landscape where woodlands slope down to the waters edge , medieval towns seem to be snoozing , vineyards look sweet with promise , and heights are crowned mysteriously with fine old castles and monasteries . |
| 19 | It takes long hours in the laboratory to convert deadly greenery into a possible lifesaver . |
| 20 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 21 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 22 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 23 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 24 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 25 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 26 | Similarly , it takes several hours before ozone is formed from photochemical actions involving oxides of nitrogen and volatile organic compounds ( hydrocarbons ) . |
| 27 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 28 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 29 | He took 17 hours to hatch at an ostrich farm at Weeton , Lancs — egged on by ranger Philip Bowness , who used an African trick of whistling to encourage him . |
| 30 | It took four hours before he could move , during which time the lifeless body of Ewan Famber that was , leaked fluids off the white table on to the ceraplas floor . |