Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laboratory or department under the charge of each professor shall be open for at least eight weeks in each term , and at such other times , and for such hours , as the professor shall think fit . |
| 2 | He started shaking if you said ‘ Hello ’ too loudly and for several hours after his punishment felt very hungry because he could n't hold a knife and fork long enough to get the food into his mouth . |
| 3 | During the night and for several hours after dawn the summit remains clearly visible , but as the plain warms up in the morning sun , the hot air rises and becomes vapour at a given height . |
| 4 | The Oldham directors resolutely refused to release their local man , and after several hours of talks Chapman asked : ‘ All right , then , what about this other chap Taylor ? ’ |
| 5 | On Sept. 7 , as hundreds of armed supporters of the Moslem- dominated opposition surrounded Dushanbe airport terminal , members of the coalition government formed in May [ see p. 38916 ] and parliamentary opposition leaders prevented Nabiyev from leaving for his northern home region of Khodzhent , and after several hours of talks forced him to resign . |
| 6 | She suggested that I speak to a man who had lived nearby in 1948 , and after some hours he arrived at the house , a middle-aged Israeli with a lined face and very bloodshot eyes . |
| 7 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 8 | ‘ But the greatest evil of all , ’ he complained , ‘ resulted from the constant intermingling , without any restraint , of persons of both sexes and all ages , at all times of the day and at all hours of the night . ’ |
| 9 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 10 | It was a long morning , but after many hours and a lot of giggling and parading , the three of them had chosen dresses . |
| 11 | But after several hours ' hard canoeing , when the Hokule'a was due west of the island of Lanai , in the channel known as Kealaikahiki , or ‘ The Path to Tahiti ’ , a vicious swell blew up . |
| 12 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 13 | But with several hours of sunshine almost every day during my stay in December , it was certainly possible to get a moderate tan . |
| 14 | I have meant to write to you a hundred times during the last three weeks but at all hours of the day I have been busied with teaching and beating and supervising footballings until when at last after all the animals were caged up and I at last had some peace , I have been too sad & too weary to write anything . |