Example sentences of "it [verb] [num] hours [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm , yeah , It takes four hours to get to Lanzarote . |
| 2 | It does n't , sometimes it goes more slowly sometimes it goes more quickly , sometimes it stops but because it takes two hours to do the hundred miles we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | Mr Keith cited three examples of information on the map , prepared for the association , which he disputes : that it takes four-and-a-half hours to travel from his home town of Durness , in Sutherland , to Inverness ; that from Dunvegan , on Skye , to Inverness , via Portree , takes four hours 45 minutes , and that Inverness to Dalwhinnie takes one hour 25 minutes . |
| 4 | No but I mean why did it take three hours to get him to surgery ? |
| 5 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 6 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 7 | ‘ In the end , ’ he recalled , ‘ it took eighteen hours to cook and an hour-and-a-half to carve . |
| 8 | It took six hours to make . |
| 9 | It took five hours to reach Tagmout , our overnight spot , first crossing the dusty plain then wiggling up long valleys , over spurs and through gorges — the road simply gouged out of the rock and wickedly rough on the vehicle . |
| 10 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 11 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
| 12 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 13 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 14 | It took three hours to dig them out , and it was no fun . |
| 15 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |
| 16 | It was Christmas Eve and , during the interval in Coriolanus that night , he put the bird in the oven , expecting it to take fourteen hours to cook . |