Example sentences of "[prep] hour [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cassie could have looked for hours but a slight sound from the garden jolted her back to an awareness of her present danger . |
| 2 | Oh about erm three feet deep I reckon they were , I mean to load up er eight hundred tonnes , which we average these hoppers out at , er er we were getting a good soil we 'd load up eight hundred tonne in an hour and a half to two hours , between hour and a half to two hours we 'd be loaded , that 's all depend on what you was dredging , you might be interested in and , and go quicker , if you were dredging greenfly that 's be alright you 'd , if you dredged peat well that hopper would be full but it would n't be half lo it 'd be half loaded you see , be half way down to the plimsoll mark . |
| 3 | But curators have keys to museums after hours and a big deep bath of unlimited hot water back home where wives have dinner waiting . |
| 4 | There is one basic hourly rate with a limited number of hours and a single overtime rate . |
| 5 | And since the good doctor was a lousy pilot , it was a lot of hours and a lot of money , nearly half his government salary , and almost all paid for by sympathetic friends in East Berlin . |