Example sentences of "it [verb] [det] [art] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And as it takes half an hour to drive to Royal Wrigglesworth we must assume that Sir Vivien 's Lagonda would have driven through the village at about eight . ’ |
| 2 | She hates parks ; it takes half an hour to get there from the flats and then the kids are put inside one lot of railings like some kind of animals and you walk up and down inside another lot and watch them . |
| 3 | It takes half an hour to get from Bournemouth to Southampton , but it can take up to an hour to get from Barts to the Westminster hospital . |
| 4 | ‘ It takes half an hour to get anywhere in London on the tube , ’ said Edward . |
| 5 | unless it takes half an hour , well half an hour anyway |
| 6 | It took half an hour for Rock Hudson and a doctor to pull him from the wreck . |
| 7 | Six of us , Mohammed , Aziz , Ali ( Aziz 's assistant ) , six locals and goods it took half an hour to unload half way , was a fairly modest load . |
| 8 | It took half an hour before she came across it , moored by a small wooden landing stage . |
| 9 | It was as if , owing to the punishment I had received , all the close and companionable cells of my brain had been spaced round the frozen world , so that it took half an hour for intelligence to march from one department to the next . |
| 10 | Maybe it lasted half an hour , that sleep , it could n't have been longer because there was still no daylight when I was woken , although he did n't mean to wake me . |