Example sentences of "hour and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
2 | I had at my command a whole hour and a quarter , and I had my voice ; but the words … |
3 | Take hour and a quarter to get home . |
4 | ‘ About an hour and a quarter ’ . |
5 | ‘ I 've just spent an hour and a quarter waiting for him not to be here . ’ |
6 | But he went out for three days , never for an hour and a quarter . |
7 | We waited for an hour and a quarter but then it got dark . |
8 | Her visit lasted just over an hour and a quarter , and she left holding a birthday card for Prince Harry that had been made by the refuge children . |
9 | A group of Militia from Yavas , who formed a choir that was well known throughout the Dubrovlag , sang for an hour and a quarter . |
10 | Bake in the centre of a very slow oven , gas no. 2 , 310°F. , for an hour and a quarter , until the shortbread is a very pale biscuit colour . |
11 | Marlon Brando , in The Godfather ( 1972 ) , amiably declined to have the patience for such five-hour make-ups : an hour and a quarter was his maximum , but then he was only ageing 20 or 25 years , not 90 . |
12 | Now we 've got a good long a session and hour and a quarter and tea afterwards . |
13 | When they came back an hour and a quarter later , the meal seemed scarcely begun . |
14 | We used to have an hour and a quarter fro lunch , half an hour for tea , and we used to er have to get the principal 's tea ready and in the midmorning they always had tea made of milk . |
15 | Took about an hour and a quarter to do but there you go . |
16 | He arrives in London by train in exactly ’ , Dr Mortimer looked at his watch , ‘ one hour and a quarter . ’ |
17 | He thought it a great feat that she had got in from the Point in an hour and a quarter . |
18 | ‘ In about an hour and a quarter , the coach should stop at a signpost about five miles from here . |
19 | The traffic along Western Avenue had been quiet , and it was only an hour and a quarter after leaving Oxford that Lewis was speaking to the Night Sister on the third floor of the hospital , a neat , competent-looking brunette who appeared rather more concerned about the unprecedented police interest in matters than in the medical condition of her most recent road-casualty , now lying behind a curtained bed in Harley Ward . |
20 | After just an hour and a quarter the band said goodnight , and after a good deal of clapping and foot stamping Harry came back to one last song on his own . |
21 | Journey time varies between around half an hour to an hour and a quarter . |
22 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
23 | There 's a little tiny bit to tinker with , but it 's not if we were to , we , we 're canvassing at pressed about altering the length of the lunchtime break to break it down from an hour and a half and an hour and a quarter to an hour and a quarter to an hour which is being we would save some money on not paying our |
24 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
25 | Erm it took me an hour and a quarter . |
26 | That 's allowing a a good hour and a quarter . |
27 | So we 've both got it takes me an hour and a quarter to get to Caernarfen and it takes Jan about an hour and a half to get to Leek because they 're such bad roads . |
28 | Yeah , it takes an hour and a quarter it takes to get there |
29 | If it takes an hour and five minutes , we charge an hour and a quarter to get for the time to get back . |
30 | Well it took us , as I say , an hour and a quarter . |