Example sentences of "and a [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | All accounted for and two and a half hours to spare . |
| 2 | At one stage the average time of the five daytime trains between Euston and Glasgow was over five and a half hours . |
| 3 | P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has five sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Zeebrugge : crossing time four and a half hours . |
| 4 | P&O has two sailings a day from Felixstowe to Zeebrugge , crossing time five and a half hours . |
| 5 | In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’ |
| 6 | EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval . |
| 7 | The executions began at midnight on Saturday and were completed six and a half hours later . |
| 8 | The Nikolaikirche , with 2,000 seats , was full one and a half hours before the church meeting began . |
| 9 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 10 | Taff decided to do the first two and a half hours on the gun so I crawled to the back of the trench , curled up and immediately dropped off to sleep . |
| 11 | He points to the fact that the Atlantic can now be crossed in three and a half hours as indisputable evidence that the pace has hotted up , but in his view , the next generation will assimilate such changes . |
| 12 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 13 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 14 | Flying time is three and a half hours and there is no time change . |
| 15 | Kallicharran took nearly two and a half hours over 34 , while Fredericks was grafting away at the other end . |
| 16 | With twelve and a half hours left , England were clearly up against it , so when the rain fell on the fourth day they were not too upset . |
| 17 | Instead , he was out first thing next morning for 110 and Gower declared at 300 for 9 , leaving West Indies to make 342 in four and a half hours and twenty overs . |
| 18 | Only two and a half hours more to go , I told myself , and fixed the old lady with a hard stare that I hoped somehow conveyed to her what pleasure , what deep and lasting pleasure , it would give me to haul her off her seat and push her out the window . |
| 19 | That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years . |
| 20 | Two and a half hours later , he was dead shot in the head and chest . |
| 21 | ‘ That is real politeness , then , to stay for two and a half hours , in an old woman 's bedroom , listening and asking questions . |
| 22 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 23 | On one day in March 1969 , four and a half hours were spent on points of order and discussing the confidentiality of attendance records . |
| 24 | I always leave a minimum of one and a half hours so that if I have a blow-out or breakdown or some other unforeseen emergency , I still have time to take care of it and catch the plane . |
| 25 | It lasted only one and a half hours but it satisfied body and soul . |
| 26 | It took us One and a half hours to clean up , but my early start gave us plenty of time . |
| 27 | The result is an evening of Wagnerian dimension spread over four and a half hours . |
| 28 | It takes two and a half hours each way . |
| 29 | This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill . |
| 30 | An average of one and a half hours was spent with most families . |