Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [to-vb] through the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Through the desert with my family and through the perils of the desert and erm it took us about eight hours to go through the desert , which normally takes two hours , and it was very difficult . |
| 2 | ‘ In cases of multiple debt , we reckon on 12 hours to work through the inquiry , ’ she added . |
| 3 | The speed of separation — the solution only takes about 30 seconds to move through the outer tube — also prevents too much heating . |
| 4 | The Skegness Festival in 1938 had a Carnival Procession which took five or six hours to get through the town , the Rector of Stiffkey now forgotten . |
| 5 | Even when the decay is spreading , it typically takes six years to travel through the tooth enamel into the softer dentin , where it becomes a threat to the nerves in the root canal . |
| 6 | I want a thousand pounds to come through the door now . |
| 7 | You will then need a further five minutes to look through the application form ( or application letter or c.v. ) of the next candidate , and to remind yourself of any particular questions which need to be asked as a result of what it contained . |
| 8 | Mark Breland took less than four rounds to come through the third defence of his WBC welterweight title yesterday in Tokyo , opening up a bad cut above the right eye of his Japanese challenger , Fujio Ozaki . |
| 9 | It took her two weeks to go through the whole house — ten working days . |
| 10 | On this picture , the cloud of material from which our Solar System formed had a very unusual history , taking as long as 4.6 thousand million years to travel from one spiral arm to the next and then taking several hundred million years to pass through the compressed region of the Galaxy , the arm itself . |
| 11 | He similarly composed two leitmotifs to run through The Sleeping Beauty . |
| 12 | There is an information centre , but its three staff will be stretched on a busy day , when Nielson expects more than 1,000 customers to pass through the store . |