Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [adv] it [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 You can not put a time on how long it takes for a swimfeeder to empty .
2 But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well your home is insulated and draught proofed .
3 Now break it up as it is cut along the dotted lines and the object is to see how long it takes for it to be reassembled .
4 The graph below shows how long it takes for the present value of £1,000 per year to reach £15,000 .
5 that , that 's how long it takes for half of the radioactive isotopes to disappear .
6 Right , er Right , it 's how long it takes for a whole substance to react , so it ca n't Say you put two
7 It 's how long it takes for those to react together until they 've stopped reacting .
8 But just how long it takes for the heat to flow out will depend on how well insulated and draughtproofed your home is .
9 Let's see how long it takes for mummy .
10 As the T1 determines how long it take for the magnetic resonance signal to recover after each image , a long T1 — that is , 1–3 seconds as in water , determines the maximum image frequency achievable in continuous , long duration experiments .
11 For example , over half of the participants ( 56 per cent ) did not know how many beers they could drink before reaching the legal limit for driving and well over two-thirds of them knew neither how long it took for alcohol to be burned up by the body ( 71 per cent ) nor what , if anything , was an effective way of sobering up ( 71 per cent ) .
12 The plan was to look back at intervals after leaving camp to see how long it took for various features of the Land Rover to disappear , so that I would know how much longer there was to walk when they reappeared in the evening .
13 ‘ I wonder how long it took for my message to get through to the patrol cars on the road , ’ Patrick said .
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