Example sentences of "[pers pn] take two hours " in BNC.
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1 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It took two hours , even using all the short cuts , to walk to Low Birk Hatt , and it was about I a.m. when I got back . |
5 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
6 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
7 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |