Example sentences of "it take [noun] [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this rate , it takes Intel two hours to compress a minute of video . |
| 2 | It took Paul five hours to buy all the materials from Waitrose , Safeway and a man in the high street with a shop that shut at two-thirty on Saturdays . |
| 3 | It took mum two hours to get to Debenham and it normally takes half an hour . |
| 4 | She was rushed to a hospital in Nottingham where it took doctors three hours to stabilise her condition . |
| 5 | It took Quinn four hours , but no one disturbed him . |
| 6 | It took George several hours to get used to the fact that I was deceitful and irresponsible , but eventually he agreed that we might as well get as good a price as we could — £10 , he thought , if they had n't spotted the broken springs . |
| 7 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |