Example sentences of "[adj] hours each [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campbell pointed out that London policemen worked only eight hours each day and were given one day off each week . |
| 2 | For the second period at Hinchinbrook , from May nineteen eighty eight to May nineteen eighty nine again at least one parent was present for eight hours each day and assistance was given with physiotherapy , occupational therapy and speech therapy . |
| 3 | For at least eight hours each week , students were expected to work alone or in pairs on experiments in the laboratory , with some supervision by staff and postgraduates . |
| 4 | And in addition , of course , much of his time — several punishing hours each day , since childhood — is spent in well-worn practice gear . |
| 5 | And unless you make a special effort to do something active on a weekend , then you can add another 16 hours or so to the total , making a grand total of more than 70 hours each week . |
| 6 | I would take three classes and exercise at least another 12 hours each week . |
| 7 | It takes two and a half hours each way . |
| 8 | Travel takes two and a half hours each way . |
| 9 | It would entail a coach trip of about two and a half hours each way . |
| 10 | For a few hours each day the HCI Captain keeps them occupied like a regular Mary Poppins with games excursions and rehearsals for junior showtime . |
| 11 | Betty and George found their support in the local day centre , Jill from a relative 's support group and Gladys through a care attendant scheme that relieved her responsibilities for a few hours each day . |
| 12 | Could you come for a few hours each day , do you think ? ’ |
| 13 | I have to drop the work on the catalogue and get into my studio for a few hours each day to carry further a painting which began as a request : it is called ‘ War Games ’ . |
| 14 | But most MEPs say the parliament should be in Brussels where they have their offices , and have signed a lease-buy deal on a £171 million debating chamber in Brussels which involves a legal obligation of annual rent of £16.7 million and will now be used for just a few hours each year . |
| 15 | When the tide springs up the shore the furthest , it also recedes the furthest — uncovering pools which may be accessible by foot for only a few hours each year . |
| 16 | Newly qualified nurses are expected to receive an orientation and induction programme appropriate to their appointments , followed by a consolidation period for a minimum period of three months , when it is recommended that a few hours each week be set aside for learning periods either with other newly qualified staff or as self-directed learning . |
| 17 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 18 | One knitter even travelled six hours EACH WAY in a day ! |
| 19 | ‘ Neither of us wanted to go , but Doris was coming with me to London each week and because of all the road works on the A1 the journey was averaging six hours each way and getting worse . |
| 20 | In my five years in Jerusalem , I used to spend two early hours each day in the private chapel of Bishop 's House . |
| 21 | So you 're talking about thirty or I suppose that Three hours each way I suppose . |
| 22 | SENALEP has managed to negotiate an interlude in the women 's backbreaking workload : one group is freed from manual labour for two or three hours each day to join in the literacy programme . |
| 23 | The first was that the lads were n't allowed to move freely within the prison ; another was the size of the cells , in which the lads spend about 11 hours each day . |
| 24 | In the villages of the region women and children spend many hours each day walking to a spring where the water trickles out of the ground to collect water in twenty kilo twenty litre pots weighing over twenty kilos . |
| 25 | In terms of historical change , manual workers of both sexes work today almost as many hours each week as they did in the late 1930s and early 1940s ; this demonstrates the fact that , where available , overtime is a crucial necessity for the manual worker if he or she is to receive a wage at or above the ‘ average ’ for all manual occupations . |
| 26 | To keep your pilot 's licence you must fly 5 hours each year minimum . |
| 27 | Staff and prisoners at Maidstone were acutely aware that , in a training prison , they were relatively well off compared to the overcrowded local prisons , whose barren regimes often mean prisoners being locked in their cells twenty-three hours each day . |
| 28 | Trading in this fungible option contract takes place for ten hours each day , with a one hour overlap between Amsterdam and New York . |
| 29 | The three-year road contract will involve between 65 and 70 lorry movements for ten hours each day in each direction six days a week . |
| 30 | But she still goes to school in Soweto — a journey of two-and-a-half hours each way by train and bus . |