Example sentences of "it [verb] [noun] [num] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this rate , it takes Intel two hours to compress a minute of video . |
| 2 | Having them both here busy looking for a flat for JONATHAN , who becomes nicer and nicer as he grows up ( and who can it seems sleep twelve hours on the trot night after night ) is quite exhausting , and at times annoying . |
| 3 | It hit Hawaii fifteen hours later , wrecking boats and beaches , ruining the Waikiki tourist trade ; and twenty-four hours after being triggered in southern Chile , it hit Japan , 10,000 miles north . |
| 4 | It took Paul five hours to buy all the materials from Waitrose , Safeway and a man in the high street with a shop that shut at two-thirty on Saturdays . |
| 5 | It took mum two hours to get to Debenham and it normally takes half an hour . |
| 6 | She was rushed to a hospital in Nottingham where it took doctors three hours to stabilise her condition . |
| 7 | It took Quinn four hours , but no one disturbed him . |
| 8 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |