Example sentences of "they [verb] [num] hours [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all . |
| 2 | ( I have remembered for many years the patronne of a restaurant in the little Norman port of Barfleur who refused to cook artichokes for dinner that night — it was then 6.30 p.m. — on the grounds that they required two hours boiling . |
| 3 | They took 4½ hours to beat Chris Palmer , John Thurlbeck and John Leeman from the Co Durham club , Stanley , 19–11 . |
| 4 | They took five hours to get it out ; and there was a man in the next room who was not so lucky as I was . |
| 5 | Now they have 24 hours to leave . |
| 6 | Because they need twelve hours rest you know . |