Example sentences of "it [verb] be [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been five hours since he 'd got home , and he had n't slept in that time . |
| 2 | In 1985 councillors spent an average of seventy-four hours a month on their duties , a slight decrease on 1976 when it had been seventy-nine hours ( Widdicombe 1986 : 126 ) . |
| 3 | to do these at home I said well it had been twenty hours or nothing cos me and my old man do n't speak ! |
| 4 | most of us had eaten our lunch by then on the coach because we were so hungry , after all it had been seven hours since we had last eaten . |
| 5 | ‘ And it 's been six hours of torment for me . |