Example sentences of "hour [prep] a time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The heat inside the oven and preparation containers is almost unbearable , and yet the bakers survive shifts of twelve hours at a time . |
| 2 | The miller 's day was dictated by the movements of the tides because his source of power would only be available for short periods of two or three hours at a time . |
| 3 | Her interests are almost all active ones ; and to be with someone whose idea of a holiday is to sit stock still for three hours at a time , with a small box of watercolours and a sketch pad and ‘ watch ’ things , was beyond her . |
| 4 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 5 | Mairi was furious when after a while Luch started to take long to return with the bucket , but it did her no good ; the wee lass often vanished for hours at a time , in spite of the scoldings she got when she returned late . |
| 6 | We soon learned to give animals the right of way in the swamps , sitting for hours at a time in the dugout , watching elephants plod by . |
| 7 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 8 | They work until they drop , twenty , thirty hours at a time . |
| 9 | I would imagine that rear passengers would be quite happy for several hours at a time in such an environment . |
| 10 | Duncan Heenan , who four years ago became the first chartered accountant to swim the Channel ( see ACCOUNTANCY , November 1988 , p 68 ) , is still , it seems , addicted to spending hours at a time submerged in cold , murky water . |
| 11 | Shooting sometimes lasted twenty hours at a time as the extras were treated to squab , caviar and champagne . |
| 12 | Look in each engine bay for the power-plant they share : the racing version delivering explosive performance for up to 24 hours at a time ; the S-class working its passage for a lifetime — unobtrusively , powerfully , and with unstinting reliability . |
| 13 | The BT men at Kidlington , Oxford , left the phone off the hook for 36 hours at a time . |
| 14 | Steven Osbourne , 30 , used three lines nearly every day for six months — sometimes for 22 hours at a time — to ring the Wheel of Fortune . |
| 15 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 16 | She sat in the dishevelled shabby glamour of her bedroom and stared out of the window for hours at a time . |
| 17 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 18 | Anyone who wants a portable to carry around and use for hours at a time on batteries , will love the 320SLi as much as I did . |
| 19 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 20 | The pitmen remain underground for eight or nine hours at a time and invariably take food down with them into the pits and eat it with unwashed hands and without a knife and fork . |
| 21 | Although many college teachers still have such job titles as lecturer , senior lecturer or reader , few teachers are happy reading aloud to their students for hours at a time . |
| 22 | Their riffs about the current state of their underwear would continue for hours at a time . |
| 23 | She did n't know if Betty knew how long Beuno had been there , so endeavoured to give the impression that she could babble away on the topic of cooking game for hours at a time . |
| 24 | From early June to mid September these afternoon winds regularly reach force 3 and 4 , sometimes more , blowing for four or five hours at a time . |
| 25 | His dealing with the witnesses now had a different purpose , and he was employed to sift their informations as they related to the alleged treason of Shaftesbury , sitting with Richard Graham , the government solicitor , ‘ ten hours at a time without moving ’ . |
| 26 | Has a majestic soaring and gliding flight , with wing-tips splayed out and upturned , often remaining on the wing for hours at a time . |
| 27 | The pallets were under gas for 12–18 hours at a time , and a careful system of rotating the stock was implemented . |
| 28 | They have an average life of 5,000 hours and are , therefore , much more economical to use in places where high levels of light are needed for long hours at a time . |
| 29 | He 's not sleeping for more than two hours at a time at the moment . |
| 30 | A strike by some 1,000 oil workers at Morocco 's largest oil refinery began on April 19 and was extended for 48 hours at a time until early May . |