Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] hours " in BNC.

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1 Newquay and Ilfracombe are each about an hours drive and worth a visit .
2 Bernice was almost grateful for the hours of enforced idleness .
3 Finding the right anaesthetic , so that one can keep the chick functionally alive for the hours required for the recording , proved surprisingly tricky .
4 All three had glanced somewhat poisonously at one another during the hours of waiting .
5 Someone in the Works and Buildings Department , haunted by the thought of these urinals gushing pointlessly at regular intervals all through the hours of darkness , Sundays and public holidays , had hit on this means of reducing the University 's water rate .
6 With the degree of mechanisation now found many of the hours claimed would be seasonal .
7 Print absorbed many of the hours of solitary darkness .
8 In these experiments subjects have invariably found it most difficult to remain awake in the hours between midnight and noon , with a revival every afternoon .
9 The support workers were encouraged to be fairly flexible with the hours worked , so that they could respond to a crisis with their client , or to any temporary increased need for their services .
10 These studies collect statistical data on a number of items considered important to the hours worked by employees who are free to vary their work effort — wage rates , family size , unearned income , type of employment , etc. , etc .
11 She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up .
12 An exhibition and participation desk where staff will be on hand to answer questions is available at from 31 May until 30 July and will be open between the hours of 9.00am – 4.30pm .
13 The guitarist Les Paul , together with his vocalist wife Mary Ford , recorded many hit tunes for Capitol from the end of 1948 onwards , but history is silent about the hours of trial-and-error ( mainly error ) this must have involved .
14 Many Catfish are crepuscular , that is to say they are most active during the hours of twilight around dawn and dusk .
15 Sitting on the studio bed to the right of her desk and chair , she recalled old Yury lying there , for most of the hours of the day and night , and felt relieved , for his sake , that he was gone .
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