In such cases a transactional unit of work can take minutes, hours, or in some cases days to complete.

在这种情况下，一个事务工作单元可能花费几分钟、几小时，甚至几天来完成。

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We also had a member of our engineering team take minutes, recording any notes that supported the diagrams.

我们也让一个工程团队的成员花费一些时间来记录任何支持图的注释。

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Forensic scientists do not usually wield guns or arrest people, for one thing, and tests that take minutes on television may take weeks to process in real life.

（比如，法医学家不是经常佩戴枪支和逮捕犯人，另外电视上只需要几分钟的检测在现实生活中可能需要几周）。

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If you stayed only ten minutes in each store, it would take over eighty-six hours to complete your visit.

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Let's take a few minutes and consider the nature of the body theory, the body theory of personal identity.

我们先来探讨,人格同一性的肉体论的，基本性质。

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There's one more aspect that I want to take a couple of minutes and have us think about, and that's this.

还有一个方面,我想花几分钟时间,让我们思考一下，就是这个。

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Missions that took days to plan in Desert Storm and hours in Kosovo now take minutes.

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Take three minutes to download, ten minutes to replay, all to listen to information that would take two minutes to convey in e-mail format.

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This is inevitably painful for the baby, and in some cases, it can take minutes for this distress to recede - which could be a problem for a baby whose health is in the balance.

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