Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] take [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | This processing , which would take 2,000 hours in the Mixing Department , where labour is paid £12 per hour , would save the company additional purchasing costs of £5,000 . |
| 2 | This compares very favourably with a battery system , which can take several hours to re-charge . |
| 3 | They march in columns so long they may take several hours to pass one spot . |
| 4 | They will take 48 hours to digest the information before there is any reaction . ’ |
| 5 | They will take 48 hours to digest the information before there is any reaction . ’ |
| 6 | Now in this case , four of them will take twelve hours . |
| 7 | Since it may take many hours to establish what influences the activity of a single cell , this is a far from trivial issue . |
| 8 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 9 | The time needed to reach a solution to a problem is much longer ( i.e. it could take several hours or even days ) than the implementation/repair ( i.e. replacing a module or a board/panel can take only 30 minutes ) . |
| 10 | Once upon a time it could take several hours to install a network interface card . |
| 11 | These doughs are made in three minutes now where it used to take six hours . |
| 12 | Similarly , in 1979–80 , it used to take 13.2 hours for a man to produce a ton of steel . |
| 13 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 14 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 15 | It would take six hours to examine all thousand stones . |
| 16 | Love managed his second successive 68 , adding : ‘ We were warned that play would be slow here but I could n't believe it would take six hours . |
| 17 | Admittedly , it would take twenty-four hours to see if the blood on the scissors matched the sample from Nicola Sharpe and if the partial fingerprints could be matched against the elimination prints from David Parkin . |
| 18 | But at 50°s ; F , it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut , and much below that temperature , digestion ceases , Koi fed on a warm winter 's day will then have to pass a cold winter night , when a gutful of even low-protein pellets can turn into a pathogenic sludge causing liver and kidney failure . |
| 19 | If some is present ( bearing in mind it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut ) , then continue with sinking wheatgerm . |
| 20 | Consider this : it can take 50 hours to re-key one megabyte 's worth of data . |
| 21 | It can take several hours to kill an entire whale group which may number several hundred individuals . ’ |