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Trvalo by mi večnosť všetko vysvetliť.
It would take forever for me to explain everything.
Trvalo to dlhšie, než sme očakávali.
It took longer than we expected.
Trvalo mi tri hodiny urobiť si domácu úlohu.
It took me three hours to do my homework.
Tomovi trvalo desať rokov postaviť si dom.
It took Tom ten years to build his house.
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Slovak National Corpus (SNK) ↗English gloss from the frequency publish path. Example sentences from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR).
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