Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [art] hour " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I expected him over an hour ago . ’
2 It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes .
3 The journey took her over an hour , and it was another fifteen minutes before she found where Michael was being held .
4 It took us over an hour the following morning to get through this pass , a notorious place for ambushes .
5 The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour .
6 It took us about an hour by bus to get into the Central Market but in the last year we were there , the public transport system collapsed and we had to go home in trucks just as if we were cattle .
7 I think it took us about an hour and a half to get home !
8 That was the general feeling but he did , he gave us about an hour and a half .
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