Example sentences of "[adj] hours in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bad custom has prevailed lately in our mines in general which is that the men work only six hours whereas they used to work eight hours … we entered into a resolution to insist on the men working eight hours in future , instead of six and relieve in place . |
| 2 | I put myself on the line for him once already and look where it got me : thirty-six hours in jail ; Interrogations every four hours . |
| 3 | On May 16 some 900 army conscripts took control of the international airport at Abidjan , the capital , for 12 hours in protest at low levels of pay and poor employment prospects . |
| 4 | The labour movement was demanding , and demonstrating in favour of , ‘ the right to work ’ ( which meant public works schemes , paid at standard wages ) and shorter hours in order to spread the available work more widely . |
| 5 | By nine she felt , knowing this to be illogical , that the news was stale and she had passed three foolish hours in ignorance of disaster or even , very occasionally , of something wonderful . |
| 6 | After exclusion of those who had been rehydrated intravenously before admission to the hospital the median duration of preoperative rehydration treatment was similar in both groups ( 21 hours in group A and 22 hours in group B ; W=35314.5 , p=0.2 ( -4.3 to 0.8 ) ) . |
| 7 | Wool sorters at Exeter worked " from the time of being able to discern the wool until the evening " , which amounted to about eight and a half hours in winter and twelve in summer . |
| 8 | The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas . |
| 9 | I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’ |
| 10 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 11 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
| 12 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
| 13 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 14 | During the period from five to 30 hours in culture the number of receptors per cell fell from 2.3×10 5 to 1.1×10 5 . |
| 15 | NICK FALDO , never afraid of hard work in his pursuit of golfing perfection , has spent 30 hours in practice for his challenge at the 93rd US Open which starts at Baltusrol , New Jersey on Thursday . |
| 16 | Those who sleep less sometimes claim to do so by choice , self-righteously accusing everyone else of being idle who spend more than six hours in bed . |
| 17 | Thomas More 's vision of Utopia is that of a society in which private property would be abolished , in which the state would provide food , clothing , housing , education and medical treatment for all its members and in which the working day would be only six hours in length . |
| 18 | ‘ Forty-two hours in labour . |
| 19 | I 'd got a baby — forty-two hours in labour , but I 'd finally got a baby . |
| 20 | The extra hours in department X are 40 hours * 4 weeks = 160 hours . |
| 21 | We can not work above 7½ hours in winter and about 12 in summer . " |
| 22 | Anyone who wished to slaughter an animal was required to request permission in writing from a headman at least forty-eight hours in advance , noting a full description of the animal . |
| 23 | Due to his speech-impediment , he was mistaken for a German spy and was arrested and spent some uncomfortable hours in custody before being released . |
| 24 | In 1975 average earnings in agriculture were £45–25 for a working week of 46. 1 hours , compared with £59.58 for 43–6 hours in manufacturing industry . |
| 25 | Hours of teaching practice varied between 90 and 630 , and supervision ( ignoring those who listed upwards of 100 hours ! ) was often for less than 10 hours in total — noticeably less than for English on average . |
| 26 | Simmer three hours in salt water , drain , slice and serve with cabbage soaked in wine . |
| 27 | After exclusion of those who had been rehydrated intravenously before admission to the hospital the median duration of preoperative rehydration treatment was similar in both groups ( 21 hours in group A and 22 hours in group B ; W=35314.5 , p=0.2 ( -4.3 to 0.8 ) ) . |
| 28 | Sixteen hours in labour . |
| 29 | After 58 hours in Committee , only nine clauses of the Water Bill had been considered . |
| 30 | It is known in the House that the reality is a choice between many hours in Committee characterised by filibuster and slow progress , and a number of hours in Committee in which we make reasonable progress . |