Sentence examples similar to the task took hours from inspiring English sources

The task took three hours, Ms. Vogel said.

If you haven't been here, it is hard to imagine what it is like to function in a place in which there is absolutely no infrastructure -- the simplest tasks take hours and require enormous physical effort to accomplish thereby depleting the population of the energy, time and will needed to think about the change that is needed in their society.

The task took about half an hour.

The task took him ten years.

The task took her just a year.

The experiment lasted approximately 2.5 hours for each participant (the tasks took approximately 30 minutes to complete).

The result is training tasks that took hours can now be done in seconds with no loss in accuracy.

The gruesome task took several hours to complete.

The dying typically took hours.

Dr Stephen McKeown, CEO of Analytics Engines, says the company's platform is capable of reducing some tasks which formerly took hours to perform to minutes.

So generating a list of commands unique to a given subject is a painstaking task that takes hours of repetition and a vast amount of computing.