Example sentences of "it [verb] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | It averages 3,000 hours of sunshine each year ; in fact more than the Costa Brava , Mallorca and the French Riviera . |
| 2 | Think about it driving thirty hours . |
| 3 | Well , er , it shows three hours erm , every morning cold calling . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It takes long hours in the laboratory to convert deadly greenery into a possible lifesaver . |
| 6 | and wrap it up into a package and say you know if anything goes wrong and it takes four hours then you |
| 7 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 8 | Right it takes two hours it 's going at a steady sixty , great , so we know that 's a hundred and sixty . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Similarly , it takes several hours before ozone is formed from photochemical actions involving oxides of nitrogen and volatile organic compounds ( hydrocarbons ) . |
| 13 | With higher after-tax wages it takes fewer hours to earn any given target income . |
| 14 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 15 | " Fill your Sillabub pot half full with sider , and good store of sugar , and a little nutmeg , stir it well together , and put in as much cream by two or three spoonfuls at a time , as hard as you can , as though you milk it in ; then stir it together very softly once about , and let it stand two hours before you eat it , for the standing makes it curd . " |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 18 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 19 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It took many hours of structural trials to perfect the authentic shapes and colouring of the flowers in painted metal . |
| 24 | ‘ In the end , ’ he recalled , ‘ it took eighteen hours to cook and an hour-and-a-half to carve . |
| 25 | It took six hours to make . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
| 29 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 30 | They rode through spring — it took two hours or so — and entered summer . |