Example sentences of "[art] hour [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 2 | I 'd leave the shop at 6 p.m. , drive off to a gig , ( reeking of chips despite bathing nightly in Domestos ) and return in time for the hour and a half of cleaning which began as soon as the last customer left at midnight . |
| 3 | It implies a process of hiring and firing by the day or by the hour and a high level of job insecurity . |
| 4 | He had invited her to join the ladies ' sewing circle , and even suggested that she might like to attend the Tuesday evening Bible readings which he ran — he was sure that ‘ dear Miss Mates ’ would release her for the hour and a half the readings usually took . |
| 5 | In addition , there was a further surcharge of 2.5 p/kWh during the hour and a half of heaviest demand during the day , at whatever time that occurred . |
| 6 | There is then an alternation between slow wave sleep and REM sleep , with REM sleep recurring about every hour and a half . |
| 7 | Above that were two windows which opened every hour and a procession of Apostles appeared in each window . |
| 8 | As a result just one Bq of Caesium-137 , contained in one litre of milk , will undergo a tiny explosion every second ; 60 explosions every minute , 3,600 explosions every hour or a total of three to seven million tiny atomic explosions in its stay in our bodies — any one of which can cause cell mutations which eventually lead to cancer or genetic damage . |
| 9 | The charge for a lesson was 3s. 0d. a hour or a played round . |
| 10 | Does he realise that it is not just an hour but a year and a half late ? |
| 11 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |
| 12 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |
| 13 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |
| 14 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 15 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 16 | He was killed about an hour and a half ago during a German counter attack on our positions . |
| 17 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 18 | An hour and a half later , Jakki had a great interview in the can . |
| 19 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 20 | As on every other Saturday morning , the inhabitants of Little Saigon in Orange county will crowd around their televisions to watch an hour and a half of Vietnamese programmes . |
| 21 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 22 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 23 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 24 | I do not ever recall being quite as sick and shaken as I was then , about an hour and a half ago . |
| 25 | Among those who glibly encouraged the notion was J B Priestley , who wrote of football turning its fans into ‘ a new community , all brothers together for an hour and a half … an altogether more splendid kind of life ’ . |
| 26 | Railway : The train to Salzburg takes an hour and a half and costs approx AS 270 ; alternatively Innsbruck takes two hours and costs approx AS 370 . |
| 27 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 28 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 29 | Back in his small room , Sandison lay down on the bed and slept for about an hour and a half . |
| 30 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |