It took several hours to work the puzzle.

解开谜底花了好几个小时。

youdao

It took several hours to convince the judge of his guilt.

几小时之后，法官终于相信他的犯罪事实。

youdao

I ran the graphical package updater under Gnome, and it took several hours.

我在Gnome下运行图形包更新程序时花了几个小时才完成。

youdao

Each time, it took several hours to get permission to cross the border.

VOA: special.2009.01.14

It took several hours before security forces were able to gain control of all the sites.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

When a mob of 20, 000 eventually headed for the Malacanang presidential palace, a couple of hours after midnight on May 1st, it took them several hours to overrun four checkpoints.

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It took security forces several hours to regain control.

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Bashir co-founded Peek a year ago after several years mulling over the 20 hours it once took her to book a weekend trip to Istanbul.

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