Example sentences of "[num] hour [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marion Balcombe , ENB director of primary health care , said that in England HVs and DNs will have to complete an open learning package of 10 to 12 hours and a lecture course of at least 15 hours . |
| 2 | What 's forty-eight hours and a good part of it taken up on the train ! |
| 3 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 4 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 5 | Yesterday , with two interest rates announced in three hours and a devaluation on the way , there was only one message for sterling — sell , sell , sell . |
| 6 | The journey from Montrose to Laurencekirk , ten and a half miles , takes three hours and a quarter on foot , on the undulating and awkward A937 . |
| 7 | Around Manchester fourteen hours or a shift system with sixteen hours on and eight off , relieving in thirds , was common . |
| 8 | A major change is one that we make to your holiday arrangements before departure , that involves changing your UK airport(s) , resort area or time of departure or return by more than twelve hours or a change of accommodation to a Club not featured in this brochure . |
| 9 | Clarins two new Self-Tanning Treatments promote a superb natural golden tan within one hour and a ‘ just back from holiday ’ look in less than three hours ! |
| 10 | By the finish of yesterday 's race he was 35 seconds ahead of second placed Gerhard Berger — and had covered the equivalent distance of London to Manchester in a little more than one hour and a half . |
| 11 | He arrives in London by train in exactly ’ , Dr Mortimer looked at his watch , ‘ one hour and a quarter . ’ |
| 12 | In two hours or a little less , it would end , and Thorfinn would come in , a little drunk or more than a little drunk , as he could afford to be only in Caithness and Orkney , and so deliver himself , briefly , into her charge . |
| 13 | The reissue of an exit visa took two hours and a thousand riyals . |
| 14 | The seal is broken and the tube worn on the clothing of the operator for at least two hours and a simple calculation made to ascertain the ppm of the gas during that time . |
| 15 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 16 | If the fasting breath hydrogen was greater than 12 ppm fasting was continued for up to 14 hours and a breath hydrogen persistently greater than 12 ppm at the end of this period was considered abnormal . |
| 17 | Fermentation takes about 48 hours and a stout , full-bodied , dark beer is discernable . |