Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] hours [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hudson , who held the innings together for eight hours 40 minutes , was finally yorked off-stump by Benjamin , seventh out after facing 521 balls from which he hit 20 fours . |
| 3 | John was brought to the surface at 3 a.m. on 31st October , having been entombed for 2 hours short of 23 days . |
| 4 | Marathon runners finishing after 2 hours 45 minutes found that they could not get into the stadium after a 26 mile 385 yard slog in 90F temperatures . |
| 5 | Another advantage is that , unlike gas turbines , diesels need little maintenance : a partial service after 2000 hours running time in the AP1-88 , followed by a complete overhaul after 8000 hours . |
| 6 | After two hours Ii managed to get David to sign the papers knowing full well that , after over 12 years of living in those conditions , I would probably want to die myself . |
| 7 | His fuel was exhausted after two hours flying time , and he made a successful forced landing three miles from Denham during which the chin cowling was dented and the propeller tip fractured . |
| 8 | Cancellation of the holiday after 24 hours delayed departure up to £3,000 . |
| 9 | I finished the final draft with Mrs Perera in an intensive session of eight hours one hot June Sunday , starting in her garden in Cheshire and ending towards midnight with the dispatch of the document by express courier for delivery to Mr Baker in London on the Monday . |
| 10 | The course lasted until early July by which time twenty T.4 and ten B.2 trips had been flown — a total of 53 hours twenty minutes , including eight hours fifty minutes night flying . |
| 11 | Before the race he was hoping to beat his personal best time of 2 hours 44 minutes 49 seconds which he set last year . |
| 12 | Another member , Bernard Edwards , entered for the second time with his partner Steve Kenning and achieved the excellent time of 2 hours 34 minutes and a few seconds , knocking more than a quarter of an hour off their time last year . |
| 13 | For Kathmandu the marathon is one of the biggest … grandest sporting events of the year and what a welcome there is for Ieuan Ellis as he races down the straight of the national stadium to win in a time of 2 hours 24 minutes and five seconds … |
| 14 | had the best time of three hours four minutes . |
| 15 | Twenty five minutes behind Pat at the finishing line was Personnel Training Adviser who came in with a time of three hours 40 minutes . |
| 16 | His training partner , Stan Leigh , who works in Information Services , achieved his target time of three hours 20 minutes , but picked up a hamstring injury along the way . |
| 17 | The co-pilot held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings , and had accumulated a total of 2,550 hours flying experience including fifty hours on the accident he had flown 120 hours , of which fifty hours were on the accident type . |
| 18 | The winner of stage eight was the Australian , Patrick Jonker , who escaped from the leading break of 13 riders with a mile to go and came in 12 seconds ahead in a time of 4 hours 40 minutes 45 seconds for the 125 miles . |
| 19 | The Guinness Book of Records confirms the fastest example of co-operative production on 30 January 1974 when wool was sheared , dyed in Selkirk , carded and spun in Galashiels , and knitted and finished in Hawick , with a sheep-to-wearer time of 4 hours 35 minutes . |
| 20 | But she still goes to school in Soweto — a journey of two-and-a-half hours each way by train and bus . |
| 21 | Harper 's next test will be a 12hour race at Darlington on March 29 , when he will be trying to break the 55–59 category outdoor 50 miles record of 6 hours 46 secs . |
| 22 | He has now completed the marathon three times and this year achieved his best time of 3 hours 39 minutes , coming 8,348th out of 27,000 runners . |
| 23 | With an airframe life of 10,000 hours this 3,900-hour aeroplane has been relatively little used . |
| 24 | The pilot-in-command held a West German Commercial Pilot Licence with instrument and instructor ratings endorsed as valid for flying Swiss registered aircraft and had accumulated a total of 2,600 hours flying experience , including 400 hours on the accident type . |
| 25 | and ran the race three-legged , and finished in the very respectable time of five hours 21 minutes . |
| 26 | Thus in R v Cornwall County Council , ex pCornwall and Isles of Scilly GALRO Panel ( 1991 ) The Times , 20 November an attempt to limit guardians to a maximum of 65 hours paid work in all but exceptionally complex cases was quashed . |
| 27 | Suppose , then , that you can allow the equivalent of four hours each evening for six days a week . |
| 28 | Derek Milne , who was running in his fourteenth marathon , was disappointed with his time of four hours 12 minutes . |
| 29 | Seven times consecutive winner of the Windscale marathon Kevin , who works in Research and Development , has completed three international marathons — Dublin , Belgrade and Reims — and was aiming to beat his last time of two hours 14 minutes . |
| 30 | Admittedly there was only a single bed but that was fine by us ; we kept it warm for each other as we were doing shifts of two hours each . |