Sentence examples for takes well over from inspiring English sources

The ride to Midtown Manhattan by bus and subway takes well over an hour.

Allowing for journeys to and from the airports and the time needed for check-in, security and boarding, a trip from central Rome to central Milan by plane takes well over three hours.

Considering the fact that it takes well over 700 lake freighter loads to move American iron ore production each year, it's not surprising that over the decades, ships have been the favored method for transporting large quantities of raw material.

Partial eclipses are virtually unnoticeable as it takes well over 90% coverage to notice any darkening at all.

Drug discovery is not an overnight process as it usually takes well over a decade to go from a discovery in the laboratory to a product that is approved for clinical use.

RainDance and BioRad offer extremely high throughput digital PCR machines utilizing millions of droplets to enable quantification of the initial copy number of the target nucleic acids, but the process takes well over an hour and requires a large table-top system for droplet generation and interrogation.

My aunt's took well over two years.

Broadly anti-European parties may take well over a quarter of the seats.

The 56 lots took well over two hours to sell, more than twice the expected norm.

Not content with taking well over £1bn from the taxpayer, BT offers lamentable service.

And changes to the Constitution, in particular, could take well over a year.