Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [num] hours [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should take two hours to freeze and should be worked with a wooden spoon from time to time . " |
| 2 | There is no way four professional golfers should take six hours to play 18 holes . |
| 3 | With a bit of luck I should get three hours sleep . |
| 4 | Some of the competitors may take two hours to reach here . |
| 5 | So , the effects of 4 pints of beer at lunch would take 8 hours to dissipate . |
| 6 | Mr Towndrow left his mother-in-law , a former pianist , at 4pm having been told it would take two hours to deliver her to Mile End , two miles away . |
| 7 | It would take six hours to examine all thousand stones . |
| 8 | Admittedly , it would take twenty-four hours to see if the blood on the scissors matched the sample from Nicola Sharpe and if the partial fingerprints could be matched against the elimination prints from David Parkin . |
| 9 | But we will need 24 hours to assess it . |
| 10 | Scattered around in 10 cities , including Stockholm , the medical specialists will spend four hours discussing the finer points of herpes , acquired immunodeficiency syndrome ( AIDS ) , hepatitis , meningitis , candida vaginitis and Reye 's syndrome . |
| 11 | The chicken korma will take six hours to cook in a specially-built giant gas-fired pan at the Ideal Home Exhibition in London . |
| 12 | They will take 48 hours to digest the information before there is any reaction . ’ |
| 13 | They will take 48 hours to digest the information before there is any reaction . ’ |
| 14 | A 5lb oven-ready turkey will take 15 hours to defrost at room temperature . |
| 15 | Consider this : it can take 50 hours to re-key one megabyte 's worth of data . |