Example sentences of "it took [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 3 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 4 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 9 | ‘ In the end , ’ he recalled , ‘ it took eighteen hours to cook and an hour-and-a-half to carve . |
| 10 | It took six hours to make . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
| 14 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 15 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |
| 16 | In 1872 , it took 10 hours and 12 relay stations to telegraph Australia . |
| 17 | Azuma recorded that at 79°F it took 24 hours for the eggs to hatch . |
| 18 | It took three hours to dig them out , and it was no fun . |
| 19 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 20 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 23 | ‘ No , it took some hours before we dragged the body from beneath a mound of soggy corpses . |