Example sentences of "[det] a hour of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought no way were we going to have half an hour of this and thought why not make our own ? |
| 2 | He should have known the consequences : half an hour of relative cheer followed by thunderous visceral revenge . |
| 3 | Then her mother would graciously conduct half an hour of polite conversation with all these people , who Jo knew were otherwise pretty cool and mostly also pretty sane , and they would all pretend to be interested in whatever dumb thing she said , and laugh if she made any of her awful little jokes and store away any personal information she disclosed so that they could tell it to their friends the next day and make it absolutely clear that they were on intimate terms with a really big star . |
| 4 | By this time Stirling had disappeared and they needed to find him as there was only half an hour of darkness left . |
| 5 | Within half an hour of breaking camp , I came over the brow of a hill — compacted earth with pockets of drifted sand . |
| 6 | In half an hour of watching there are 360 five-second units . |
| 7 | The people taking part commit themselves to half an hour of scripture based prayer each day and a half hour meeting with a ‘ Prayer Guide ’ each evening when they receive personal guidance . |
| 8 | It 's actually a very fast guitar and after half an hour of chords , runs and the odd quite musical moment , I found myself getting on really well with it . |
| 9 | ‘ Sleeping tablets will get you to sleep but can cause hangovers and a bleary feeling , and businessmen often have to be at meetings within half an hour of landing . |
| 10 | This raid , on Guernsey in the Channel Islands , by some 100 men from 3 Commando and No. 11 Independent Company ( sometimes referred to as No. 11 Commando ) was well rehearsed , and after last-minute changes of plan , literally within half an hour of setting out , the raiders boarded two destroyers to transfer to motorboats refuelled from the parent ships they accompanied . |
| 11 | So , in theory , someone of my age had half an hour of free time , although it was in fact impossible to find any place where one could be alone . |
| 12 | Every time he went across to A area , he was lucky to get half an hour of their time . |
| 13 | He had even been able to purloin half an hour of Basil 's time . |
| 14 | Half an hour of Basil 's time had been a godsend . |
| 15 | Like , if he takes you to some crap trattoria , he 's only expecting half an hour of the missionary position . |
| 16 | I removed the completed bowl at this stage and finished with three coats of Danish oil , the first two applied within a half an hour of each other , the final coat applied the next morning and allowed to dry until the evening . |
| 17 | In your first year , half an hour of concentrated thought on a specific topic may be as much as you can do at any one time . |
| 18 | And after half an hour of discussing the good things and the less good things about the royal family the vote , apart from a few abstentions , we have worried a few people fo fo fo forty three people say we think that it should be a republic , fifty four no , so there is there 's a swing factor in the middle . |
| 19 | The first evening , within half an hour of arrival , Sophie : |
| 20 | But the intricacies , I know more about Europe , eventually , and other countries , due to not being having a a briefing by a Headmaster for half an hour of something The group of us , he had eight to ten of us in the room trying to prime us on what we 'd missed for a year . |
| 21 | We could n't get through half an hour of this without the necessary conditions , humanly . |
| 22 | In the end he decided on the stripes — after half an hour of wear , the ironing job was n't going to matter anyway . |
| 23 | After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night . |
| 24 | If there is no quorum present within half an hour of the time appointed for the meeting , it must be adjourned for not more than twenty-one days ( r 6.91(3) ) to such a time and place as the chairman thinks fit ( r 6.91(2) ) . |
| 25 | We had almost half an hour of this , then brown , wet walls of rock closed us in , the sound of the engine grinding upwards reverberating in a deep cut , the foglights accentuating the macabre theatricality of our struggle up the path through which Pizarro and his four hundred armoured hidalgoes had climbed to destroy the Inca Empire half a millennium ago . |
| 26 | Anyone who was born at the Elsie Inglis Hospital can take part and the story will depend on the participants but it will include half an hour of songs from the other two shows . |
| 27 | Maybe there was half an hour of daylight left . |
| 28 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 29 | According to my watch there 's still half an hour of the so-called working day left and I think that 's long enough to locate the appropriate file , do n't you ? ’ |
| 30 | OMAGH Town 's inability to get the ball into the net during half an hour of incessant first half pressure was cruelly punished by the deadly Billy Totten after 33 minutes at St. Julians Road this afternoon . |