Example sentences of "[adj] [num] hour ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted the room to be tidy before they went to sleep as , after only some nine hours ' occupation , she felt a proprietorial interest in ‘ La Felicità ’ and wanted it to look its best always . |
| 2 | In paper mills the base for wage calculation was a measure of output judged to occupy eight hours , but paper makers generally worked another four hours ' overtime . |
| 3 | Which you had , the government , the government or building firms had to guarantee you forty four hours ' payment f of wages , forty four hours guaranteed and you had to get that whether you were working or not . |
| 4 | For an extra two hours ' shift , well I suppose we can just afford it , can we ? |
| 5 | Each of the two sub-units of the British contingent manning the BZ ( Buffer Zone ) has sent in a sitrep detailing the previous twenty-four hours ' activity in the BZ . |
| 6 | These new agreements obliged both countries ' navies and air forces ( i ) to give 14 days ' advance warning , instead of the previous 25 days , of large military manoeuvres within 80 miles of the coasts of Argentina or of the Falklands Islands and other UK possessions in the south Atlantic ; and ( ii ) to give 42 hours ' notice for permission for combat vessels to approach within 15 miles of either coast , to be arranged by mutual agreement , instead of the previous 48 hours ' notice to approach within 50 miles . |
| 7 | If there was one fixed rule in her life , it was to make sure that she had a regular eight hours ' sleep every night . |
| 8 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 9 | The pubs did n't shut until eleven o'clock so we would have a good three hours ' fun . |
| 10 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 11 | The police worked over fourteen million hours ' overtime , at an estimated cost of £140 million ( Wallington , 1985 : 152 ) . |
| 12 | Livings took a bare two hours ' sleep that night . |
| 13 | Leith gathered up her bag , her thoughts already on getting home and trying to get a full eight hours ' sleep so as to be sharp for work in the morning . |
| 14 | On average you get a maximum of £60 — £100 , paid in instalments after the first 12 hours ' delay . |
| 15 | or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12 hours ' delay ; for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £60 per person in total . |
| 16 | All-year-round protection costs £60 , and that covers the cost of the call-out , the first two hours ' labour and up to £10 of materials on each job . |
| 17 | all this , all this , it is , it is for , cos what they 're trying , what they 're trying to work is the fact that er you 're supposed to have twenty one hours ' class contact |
| 18 | I only had twenty four hours ' notice and then I sat up all night learning a speech and then dried flat at the audition . |
| 19 | Rather a dreary , grey looking place not very eye catching to me but that did n't matter the next eight hours ' driving did . |