| 1 | The tournament took five days. | |
| 2 | The operation took three hours. | |
| 3 | The longest wars can span up to 335 years, while others are over in less than an hour. | |
| 4 | His appeal took 14 years but this case is totally different. | |
| 5 | All right. I need to come back to synchrony and diachrony. |