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For example I want to say "I ran 5km in 23mins 59 secs" or "It took me 23mins
59 secs to run 5k" or "It took me an hour to tidy my room" etc etc etc.
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How to express duration of an activity?
It's possibly a little different for each of your examples even though they
mean the same thing. However, the ones with "took" seem to emphasize more
effort than the ones with "in", so it depends if you want to focus on that or
not.

>   * I ran 5km **in** 23mins 59secs → 23分59秒 **で** 5キロメートル走った
>   * It **took** me 23mins 59 secs to run 5k → 5キロメートル走るのに23分59秒 **かかった**
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