Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Groups can monopolise a route for hours like this , or , worse still , drop someone on your head while you 're trying to lead it ! |
| 2 | Another mother only feels like a brute for hours afterwards ; and another child is made furiously resentful by this indignity . |
| 3 | Just once or twice , when he remembered , Busacher wondered how Willi managed to find the time to do all these things , and be Burgermeister , and put in a least a modicum of hours on his farm . |
| 4 | As we all know , the 1265 hours represent a reduction of hours worked by most teachers . |
| 5 | Alternatively , as many people do , you may look on retirement as the opportunity for a job switch ( with perhaps a reduction in hours ) or the chance you have always wanted of setting up on your own . |
| 6 | so erm , and that went on for , I suppose till the end of the war when er , when we had a reduction in hours again , we went back to the normal nine till half past five . |
| 7 | Francis Place described the same process among London 's leather-breeches makers in 1793 , the book binders built up theirs over four years before striking for a reduction in hours , and the calico printers seem to have been constantly engaged in building and rebuilding strike funds . |
| 8 | We know of other stars whose brightness changes periodically , over a timespan of hours , weeks or years . |
| 9 | Sometimes I watched a den for hours , waiting for some action , only to see the mink return with a freshly caught eel , having made an invisible exit earlier . |
| 10 | Baldwin was cautious about the longer-term measures , and was constantly attracted by a lengthening of hours in order to assuage the sharpness of the wages conflict . |
| 11 | The new equilibrium gross wage is W ' ; at which firms demand a quantity of hours L ' ; . |
| 12 | Thus the after-tax wage is W ’ ; at which workers are happy to supply a quantity of hours L ' ; . |
| 13 | Later , the project was able to borrow a more advanced flux-gate magnetometer and the preliminary conclusions from Rodney Hale , an experienced electronics engineer , as a result of further work , are that there is a magnetic field within the circle which fluctuates relative to that outside over a period of hours . |
| 14 | E-selectin is up regulated on endothelial cells over a period of hours after stimulation by inflammatory mediators . |
| 15 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 16 | All driver licences are inspected on interview and at least monthly thereafter ; tachograph procedures are formally tested ( and we issue a Manual to be safe ) ; our drivers carry a Record of Hours Worked ( to cope with changing Operators ) ; we check out HASAWA requirements — we 're both involved in that . |
| 17 | On the other hand it would save us driving 30-odd extra kilometres in the rain , and anyway I said if we get there and there is n't a ferry for hours we can just carry on to Calais . |
| 18 | Now that they were the owners of Rafferty 's , they adjusted the rules sufficiently to allow themselves a drink after hours . |
| 19 | It may occur several times within an organism 's lifetime , sometimes within a span of hours or even minutes . |
| 20 | Her main occupations seemed to be divided between gazing with admiration at herself in a mirror for hours on end , and persuading whoever was available to take her walkies . |
| 21 | As an example , in about 1500 Nicolas von Firmian , member of a noble Tyrolese family , commissioned a Book of Hours from a Flanders scriptorium . |
| 22 | She had left Anne , fur-clad and ostensibly reading a book of hours that Prince Richard had given her , on a stone seat near the entrance to the rose-garden . |
| 23 | A large proportion of the miniatures are attributable to known artists such as Jean Bourdichon : four sheets by this artist were originally in a Book of Hours belonging to Henry VII of England and are among the great finds of the collection . |
| 24 | Furthermore , it has been established that the Parisian miniaturist Honoré also illuminated a Book of Hours , now at Nuremberg , for an English patron . |
| 25 | From the very first page , where he both mistranscribes and then mistranslates further the opening of Terce in a Book of Hours , he matches marginal pictures with random words of text beside them , wildly associating words out of context with pictures near them in the margins , apparently grasping the flimsiest of puns and word associations . |
| 26 | Only a Book of Hours caught Athelstan 's attention . |
| 27 | But — very soon — sluggish trickles over riverbed pebbles will be transformed by heavy rain in a matter of hours into dangerous raging torrents . |
| 28 | Cheddars may be hard or semi-hard ; they are pressed lightly for a matter of hours and then more firmly for a short period of days . |
| 29 | By dithering over a deal ( for a matter of hours , says BZW ; five days , says County ) , BZW missed getting the cream of the ex-Drexel staff . |
| 30 | A grateful stock market was apparently convinced that the war would be over in a matter of hours , and so the Dow Jones roared to a 114-point gain . |