Example sentences of "it take [num] hours [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It takes 4 hours in each direction , and there is plenty to see as you drift through a landscape where woodlands slope down to the waters edge , medieval towns seem to be snoozing , vineyards look sweet with promise , and heights are crowned mysteriously with fine old castles and monasteries . |
| 2 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 3 | To take a lorry load of goods from Leeds , it took 4 hours to Liverpool docks and 2½ hours to Hull docks before the motorways were opened — and ‘ time is money ’ . |
| 4 | The water was very cold , it took eight hours to film and eight days for Duncan 's head to lose that ‘ prune ’ look . |
| 5 | Azuma recorded that at 79°F it took 24 hours for the eggs to hatch . |