Example sentences of "how [adv] it [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let's see how long it takes for mummy . |
| 2 | He drew their attention to the route map on the opposite wall and set them to counting how long it took between stops , a favourite exercise that was considered by the twins to be the height of intellectual prowess but risked serious brain damage to everyone within hearing distance . |
| 3 | For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) . |
| 4 | He/she will have had time to get to know your hair , what suits you , how well it responds to mousse and gel and when it should be cut or styled . |
| 5 | There is not , as we might have expected , a simple decline in how well it remembers as time passes . |
| 6 | The problem must be recordable , ie the observer must be able to say how frequently it occurs in order to know that the intervention ( manipulation of consequences or antecedents ) is having an effect ( good or bad ) . |