Example Sentences

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Instead, they typically appeared about 10,000 seconds, or just under three hours, later.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2026

On Saturday, fans told of waits up to two hours to board trains back to Boston after the match.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026

Specs get four hours of battery life, not nearly enough to be a main computer.

From Barron's • Jun. 18, 2026

A single chocolate M&M takes 12 hours to make.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

I’d never been to China either, of course, and while I’d never given much thought to going, I could talk for hours about our pieces and their backgrounds.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu