Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas before I 'd be home for perhaps two hours and then away for five months , now I appreciate that there 's a lot more to life . |
| 2 | I am simply going to sit in his studio for perhaps three hours for the mornings of the next few weeks and Murphy shall take me and bring me back and Lyddy shall sit close by me and I will take Janet too if you would allow me — ’ |
| 3 | The result of such a small staff is that the bureau is open to the public for only 16 hours a week . |
| 4 | It resumed on Aug. 15 for only two hours before being postponed again , amid continuing disputes and a second boycott of the conference by opposition parties because of the presence of more delegates than had been authorized ( 4,288 as opposed to 2,850 ) . |
| 5 | Children should also work for only one hour before they start school . |
| 6 | From the resumption of collective bargaining in 1976 until 1986 , there were over 30 national strikes , but almost without exception they lasted for 24 hours or less , often for only 4 hours . |
| 7 | The jury deliberated for only 10 hours before convicting Mr Bakker on all charges . |
| 8 | According to the coroner 's report , 27 year old Jeremy Parkinson had been dead for only 48 hours when he was found . |
| 9 | Charles had known the full implications of the situation for only twenty-four hours , but he had a sick feeling that time was running out . |
| 10 | Mr Probyn can be held at Gloucester police station for only another hour without either being taken to court or released . |
| 11 | he had hard all about the long sorties that were carried out by the Washingtons , so he was quite chuffed that his trip was for only three hours . |
| 12 | Just eighteen months previously Diana 's mother had given birth to John , a baby so badly deformed and sickly that he survived for only ten hours . |
| 13 | Actor Jimmy Nail , who plays the hard-nosed Geordie ‘ tec , was back in his home town of Newcastle upon Tyne for only 12 hours when they pounced . |
| 14 | None of the television which Boy watched for so many hours made sense in a conventional way , because he watched television as if it was one continuous programme . |
| 15 | A smaller team would be closer to the democratic decision-making process but then the doors of such a bureau would not be able to open to the public for so many hours . |
| 16 | I took a small class of Bermondsey Girl Guides , and realized the nobility of girls who after working for so many hours in bad conditions were still loyal . |
| 17 | There are a number of reasons for breaking the existing cycle , and replacing it with a system in which people would work for so many hours a month , not necessarily as many as at present . |
| 18 | It is these duties that are approximately laid down in their conditions of service : to work for so many hours , to teach those classes , to attend these meetings , to undertake these extras . |
| 19 | The ITA was persuaded in 1956 that unless the four major companies had guaranteed access to a national market for so many hours a week , the whole system might fail . |
| 20 | I 'm a cocaine addict and I need something , 'cause I 've not had none for so many hours now . |
| 21 | I thought of the chessplayers in the Park , where we sat for so many hours , the chessplayers , more various by far than the pieces they wielded ( the players not erect , not regulated , but mumbling , shambling , rhomboid ) . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'll take a bus , ’ I thought fondly , ‘ one of those new little fat C2 buses I 've sat behind for so many hours , wishing them in hell . |
| 23 | I 'm contracted to tutor you for so many hours a day , and I 'm afraid I must insist on fulfilling my contract . ’ |
| 24 | For so many hours a week and she did n't mind at all you know |
| 25 | The product is tack-free within 20 minutes of applying , and can be cut , sanded , plastered or painted after only two hours . |
| 26 | With characteristic bravado , he had meantime obtained a pilot 's certificate after only four hours two minutes in the air . |
| 27 | They were speaking as it came to an end after just six hours of evidence . |
| 28 | It ended after just six hours of evidence with the Sheriff making no recommendations . |
| 29 | Drying time is only one to two hours per coat and the surface can take light foot traffic after just eight hours . |
| 30 | Wife Lainya , 22 , gave birth to the 7lb 12oz girl last week after just 1 hour 50 minutes in labour at Southampton 's Princess Anne Maternity Hospital . |