Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [num] hours [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five finalists had three hours to produce their creations for a jury of 12 gastronomic chroniclers ( as French food-writers entitle themselves ) and ‘ mères ’ . |
| 2 | The IBM team spent 22 hours writing their letters , but the Germans take only milliseconds to create each trimer . |
| 3 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 4 | Police spent three hours persuading her to leave the car before taking her for counselling at a police station . |
| 5 | Six men take nine hours to do it . |
| 6 | On 15 September , the Republic spent seven hours presenting its damning view of the UDR to Peter Brooke , the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland . |