Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] hour [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It took four hours to fix . |
| 2 | I would have been here sooner but one of our carriage horses slung a shoe and it took four hours to find a smith . |
| 3 | ‘ In the end , ’ he recalled , ‘ it took eighteen hours to cook and an hour-and-a-half to carve . |
| 4 | It took six hours to make . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The hydrogen supply was shut off within 10 minutes , but it took two hours to put out the blaze . ’ |
| 7 | It took two hours to dig him out . |
| 8 | It took three hours to get in character every morning and another three to get out at night . ’ |
| 9 | It took three hours to get what was left of the body out . |
| 10 | It took three hours to dig them out , and it was no fun . |
| 11 | All in all it took two-and-a-half hours to get home . |