Example sentences of "[adj] hour [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they reckon what , what it , that 's all it 's going to be a three hour test I do n't agree with putting a child of that age through a test I mean there 's none of this nursery pick out who is slow on what , where , why and when , who 's good at something who 's , who 's not so good at it , erm apparently and er , put a seven year old through this exam , find out what they 're good at and what they 're not , well the teachers obviously are n't doing their jobs very well . |
| 2 | ‘ I shall ever remember the two or three hours conversation I had with him that beautiful May morning he died , before I woke the rest of the family . |
| 3 | At 2 or 3 hours notice we may have to go to Manchester ; the women ca n't do that . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said . |
| 5 | In five hours time it would be midnight . |
| 6 | And in fact by the end of the one hour lesson I was almost up to something approaching parallel turns . |
| 7 | Right okay so you so I asked are you happy with the twenty four hour clock you say no and then you know it . |
| 8 | Yeah I mean if you get erm , I 'll tell you what actually , because it 's a two hour slot I can in one slot get them to y'know and th we 're not in a great hurry cos there 's usually a few spaces left over at the end of the term . |
| 9 | Despite making reasonable progress , difficulties prevented the team from making the summit and after 24 hours effort they returned to base camp . |
| 10 | I was awoken around seven this morning by two officers who spent the next hour cross-questioning me . |
| 11 | After nearly seven hours deliberation they 've so far failed to reach a unanimous verdict . |