Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hours [unc] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 32 | Money at call is money which can be withdrawn at only a few hours ' notice . |
| 33 | They borrow from the banks for as little as a few hours ' notice of recall by the banks ( money at call ) , and lend to the government , local authorities and firms for typically three months ( bills of exchange ) . |
| 34 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 35 | Nicola 's parents stayed at her bedside until 2.30am before snatching a few hours ' sleep in a room at the hospital . |
| 36 | So we saw almost nothing of Hong Kong , except the inside of the luxurious Hong Kong Hotel , where we had a few hours ' sleep before going to the railway station in the morning . |
| 37 | I mean it only took me two hours two and , two two and a half hours er |
| 38 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 39 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 40 | The task of David Pomeranz in writing , and Adrian Reynolds in presentation , was to get this story into a two and a half hours ' stage show and to make it entertaining . |
| 41 | A thousand hours er i i i hundred and sixty seven hundred and seventy percent increase . |
| 42 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |