Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [num] hours [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again . |
| 2 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 3 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 4 | The IBM team spent 22 hours writing their letters , but the Germans take only milliseconds to create each trimer . |
| 5 | The jury at Manchester Crown Court took 23 hours to bring in their verdicts on four of the defendants , Glynn Williams , 29 , Mark Williams , 24 , Anthony Bush , 27 , and David Bowen , 29 . |
| 6 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 7 | The train took 12½ hours to reach Aberdeen . |
| 8 | I spent half an hour painting layer upon layer over the hole and went to bed , and in the morning took two hours picking the varnish off because I 'm quite hairy , and then the damn thing moved again . |
| 9 | At first , the checklist took 6 hours to get through . |
| 10 | The jury took two hours to return a majority decision finding Shepherd guilty of assaulting Mr Hyslop . |
| 11 | Now the song took five hours to do |
| 12 | The blaze at St John 's Centre in Manor Farm Road took two hours to control . |
| 13 | ‘ My daughter 's baby was born dead because the hospital took 11 hours to decide on a caesarean operation , ’ she said . |
| 14 | After a day 's filming , the House Of Eliott star spends four hours serving toast and bacon butties . |
| 15 | Eyewitnesses indicate that ‘ the couple spent three hours laughing and cuddling at a Melbourne nightclub . ’ |
| 16 | The table takes 70 hours to make . |
| 17 | The British plant takes 53 hours to turn out each car , the Spanish factory 30 hours . |
| 18 | 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 . |