Example sentences of "[pron] take [pron] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their work was hampered when a large boulder blocking their way was moved , resulting in a further fall of shale which took them several hours to remove . |
| 2 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 3 | ‘ It takes me two hours to write a song . |
| 4 | I mean , when I get up in the morning , it takes me four hours before I come to , you 're always so jolly . |
| 5 | And it takes them twelve hours to do this job . |
| 6 | It took me four hours at a boffin-house and lasted through two sherries , three bottles of wine , a little brandy and a proposal ( of marriage ) . |
| 7 | It took me two hours to paint out the damage that Sweetman had caused to our hull . |
| 8 | It took me two hours to cha to teach him how to change a fuse an and erm w w was n't only how to change a fuse but the correct fuse for the the correct appliance like you know . |
| 9 | It took her two hours to put the curlers in ! |
| 10 | They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out . |
| 11 | It took them three hours to bring it under control . |
| 12 | It took him five hours to walk back to Leyton , where he had a bed-sit . |
| 13 | It took him 100 hours but he achieved a ratio of about 1000:1 . |
| 14 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 15 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 16 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 17 | Ten minutes later , she miaowed if I approached her and it took her several hours to forgive me and to stop treating me like a walking cat repellent . |
| 18 | But , when she was down in the country , I had a BSkyB dish installed in London and it took her 24 hours to find it . |
| 19 | Even blindingly obvious and crucial insights do n't usually come instantly — it took us 24 hours to realise that the part-concealed agenda behind IBM 's December closures was that the company was signalling the death of the mainframe , a couple of months to realise that the executive search committee of IBM non-executive directors had n't a clue what it should be looking for in a new chief executive for IBM — because they themselves did n't have the computer industry background they needed to recognise how vital such a background would be to the person assuming the post . |