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

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1 The re-marriage of work and domesticity and the reduction of hours of commuting still utopian .
2 The increase in the number of night visits is only partly due to the change in hours during which visits may be claimed .
3 The change in hours may compound an underlying increase in the number of claims , either because of increasing demand by patients or because the higher fee might encourage doctors to visit when previously they offered advice by telephone .
4 The change in hours accounts for 64.7% ( 8393/12975 ) of the increase in the number of claims since 1989 .
5 The change in hours compounds a long term upward trend in the number of night visits .
6 The object is to establish the change in hours supply to the labour market ta ; H as a result of a change in wages δW , which , other things equal , generates an income effect ( y ) and a substitution effect ( s ) , as follows ( assuming that the only tax is the introduction of a proportional one on labour income and it is this that is causing the change in W :
7 Though the film was running I had seen no staff in the cinema for hours .
8 No one — least of all your guests — wants you to be preparing in the kitchen for hours , so go for freshness , and all the light and colourful foods available during these summer months .
9 Ling allows me to invade the kitchen after hours . ’
10 We 've been in the building for hours actually .
11 I have tried to identify biochemical , morphological and physiological changes occurring in specific regions of the chick brain in the minutes to hours following training on a simple task , to show that the changes are not the results of other aspects of training than memory , to show that blocking the changes prevents the memory , and vice versa , and , finally , to examine the consequences of removing the brain sites of change , either before or after the chick has been trained .
12 If Marie Gibbs ' time course was right , I should expect to find a sequence of cellular changes in left and perhaps right IMHV and/ or LPO , associated with the several phases of memory formation , in the minutes to hours following the bird 's pecking at the bitter bead .
13 There is an overview of Indian cricket from the Asia Cup and the Irani , Deodhar , Duleep , Ranji and Willis Trophies to Test matches and One-Day Internationals , as well as an overflowing records section that will busy the statisticians for hours .
14 Finding a suitable registered childminder is probably the only option available to most of you as even the best nursery schools and crêches can seldom offer the kind of hours you are likely to need throughout school holiday periods .
15 Are these women actually made like that or is what one sees the result of hours of patient effort and painstaking attention to detail ?
16 Although the bureau manager who supports a large team of very part-time volunteers craves the injection of hours that the unemployed can offer , they equally crave stability and escape from the greater supervision needed by new staff .
17 She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time .
18 One woman with this problem , whose rather self-absorbed elderly mother used to keep her on the telephone for hours with doom-laden conversations , solved it by telling her that she had developed migraine which was always triggered off by holding a phone to her ear for more than a quarter of an hour at a time !
19 She would play happily on the sand for hours as long as the tide was out but would run from the beach as soon as the sea came to within several yards of where she was sitting .
20 ‘ The ability to derive quantative data from the core within hours of coring played a significant role in selection of drill stem test intervals and enabled Statoil to maximise the effectiveness of expensive and time-consuming critical processes .
21 The intense involvement which can soon develop makes programming one of those rather rare activities in which time can cease to exist and the passage of hours goes by unnoticed .
22 Those carmen are sittin' outside the wharves fer hours on end at times , an' they like ter come in fer a mug o' tea an' a chat .
23 You may prefer the flexibility over hours this offers , but you should weigh the pros and cons regarding working for an NHS employer and sickness pay , holiday pay , pension , study leave and so on .
24 SCOTLAND 'S Paul Lawrie and Stephen McAllister saw the benefit of hours of practice with coach Jim Farmer in the first round of the Portuguese Open on the Algarve yesterday .
25 It is the triangle A ' ; E ' ; E. By reducing the quantity of hours from L to L ' ; , the tax causes society to stop using hours on which the marginal social benefit , the height of the demand curve DD , exceeds the marginal social cost , the height of the supply curve SS .
26 At the general meeting of 13 February mentioned above , and on advice from STA headquarters , conveyed by the ETS secretary John Common , the men voted to return to work on " the November conditions " , that is with an extra 2s 6d on the stab rate ( to bring it up to the Glasgow figure ) plus some concessions on overtime , but no joy on piece rates or on the question of hours .
27 Has a majestic soaring and gliding flight , with wing-tips splayed out and upturned , often remaining on the wing for hours at a time .
28 Some observers say that charging on the basis of hours is too simple a method to be used exclusively in the increasingly complex business of auditing .
29 Like other such suppliers of temporary staff , it pays its temporaries on the basis of hours worked .
30 But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women .
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