Example sentences of "it [modal v] [vb infin] [num] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should last four hours , the inventor claims . |
| 2 | We 've got a nice piece of beef , and it 'll take two hours at least . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It would take two hours or more to reach the Auto-Route du Soleil on the long way to Paris . |
| 5 | It would take six hours to examine all thousand stones . |
| 6 | Love managed his second successive 68 , adding : ‘ We were warned that play would be slow here but I could n't believe it would take six hours . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But at 50°s ; F , it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut , and much below that temperature , digestion ceases , Koi fed on a warm winter 's day will then have to pass a cold winter night , when a gutful of even low-protein pellets can turn into a pathogenic sludge causing liver and kidney failure . |
| 9 | If some is present ( bearing in mind it can take 72 hours for food to pass through the gut ) , then continue with sinking wheatgerm . |
| 10 | Consider this : it can take 50 hours to re-key one megabyte 's worth of data . |