Example sentences of "it take [num] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 3 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 4 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 11 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 12 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 13 | To take a lorry load of goods from Leeds , it took 4 hours to Liverpool docks and 2½ hours to Hull docks before the motorways were opened — and ‘ time is money ’ . |
| 14 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |
| 15 | ‘ In the end , ’ he recalled , ‘ it took eighteen hours to cook and an hour-and-a-half to carve . |
| 16 | It took six hours to make . |
| 17 | It took five hours to reach Tagmout , our overnight spot , first crossing the dusty plain then wiggling up long valleys , over spurs and through gorges — the road simply gouged out of the rock and wickedly rough on the vehicle . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
| 20 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 21 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |
| 22 | In 1872 , it took 10 hours and 12 relay stations to telegraph Australia . |
| 23 | Azuma recorded that at 79°F it took 24 hours for the eggs to hatch . |
| 24 | It took three hours to dig them out , and it was no fun . |
| 25 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 26 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 27 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 28 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |