Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [art] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 2 | Marinate for only an hour or so in the same marinade as before or use just olive oil , lemon juice salt and freshly ground black pepper . |
| 3 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 4 | Bathsheba had planned to stay at the party for only an hour , and she was in fact preparing to leave when Boldwood found her alone in an upstairs room . |
| 5 | They had practised together for only an hour , yet it seemed like an eternity . |
| 6 | After only an hour or so , Davies released the ex-owner as an intruder . |
| 7 | He left again after only an hour . ’ |
| 8 | The charging light will go out after approximately an hour , when charging is complete . |
| 9 | But , after nearly an hour , it was obvious that she had simply been brought to this near-empty building and left for the police to find her . |
| 10 | After nearly an hour and a half at sea in gale force winds Falmouth lifeboat , under the command of Second Coxswain Alan Barnes , came up on the yacht , a 40ft steel ketch , which was drifting two and a half miles south west of The Lizard Light . |
| 11 | After about an hour when the pies and chips have stopped flying across the screen I notice a strange purple growth , like a cancer cell under a microscope , at the bottom left hand corner of the screen . |
| 12 | ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour . |
| 13 | In 1977 , J. Ekstrand demonstrated that when a healthy adult male weighing 60 kg swallowed 10 milligrams of fluoride , the levels of ionic fluoride in his blood peaked after about an hour to just over 0–4 ppm per kg of body weight ( European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology , vol 12 , p 311 ) . |
| 14 | When I ca n't take it any more ( after about an hour ) , he sits back in triumph . |
| 15 | After about an hour , when Thornfield Hall was completely silent again , there was a cautious knock on my door . |
| 16 | Er , very , very difficult er on each occasion after about an hour er we were approached by people , knocking on the windows of our cars , asking us what we were doing . |
| 17 | After almost an hour , the members of Nancy Weber 's group are ready to turn back . |
| 18 | By the time we reboarded the pavilion , after barely an hour 's play , in deference to the rising tide , we had probably soaked up more liquid than the pitch . |
| 19 | The Iraqi cease-fire ended after barely an hour . |
| 20 | They was wiv 'im in the office fer over an hour . |
| 21 | I must 'ave bin sittin' there fer over an hour an' then this geezer comes out an' beckons me in 'is office . |
| 22 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 23 | She went to sit on the sofa , and there she dreamed of Johnny , tenderly and with affection ; she thought of the words that he had said , and they made a warm spot , infinitely sweet , deep inside her where it could not be touched ; for just an hour or two , she began to believe that she truly loved him . |
| 24 | For most of the time this involved consecutive interpreting , i.e. making notes of what the speaker said and then at the end ( of perhaps an hour 's talk ) repeating the speech in the target language . |
| 25 | For the planted aquarium the total tank volume should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and filtered gently , with no spraybars , aeration , or jetting effect . |
| 26 | Therefore the total water volume of your aquarium ( 100 litres ) should be turned over a maximum of once every hour , and the water should flow very gently back into the aquarium , avoiding strong currents and surface turbulence . |
| 27 | Both involved a delay of about an hour , and in the second case an officer was forced to go in a staff car to attend the patient . |
| 28 | There is a tendency of course for some old people to expect to have long telephone calls of even an hour or more with their |
| 29 | Within a mere fifteen minutes , the new rental car with 1500 miles on the clock — and had only had in my possession for under an hour — was a burnt out shell . |
| 30 | They continued on their journey for nearly an hour without another word . |