Example sentences of "for [art] [adj] hour " in BNC.

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1 It was impressive how she coped with the two children for the twelve hours to Juliaca while her boorish husband slept , the baby 's shawl across his face .
2 for the twelve hours do n't you ?
3 twelve sections for the twelve hours ?
4 I hope the Royal Aero Club 's Records , Racing & Rallying Association will take note of the dates for the six hour races around the globe so that they wo n't interfere with Spencer 's motor racing !
5 For the six hours after the test meal , the subjects were instructed to remain quiet .
6 On day five you depart by road for the three-and-a-half hour journey to the lively resort of Pattaya at the Gulf of Siam .
7 They refused to open the gate , and became aggressive , so I was forced to pay for the extra hours parking .
8 And I think the last start was about one o'clock in the morning and you got extra payments for the extra hours .
9 ‘ During the day I only paint when he 's asleep , and sometimes for the extra hour if he 's happy playing beside me .
10 Times of night visits , proportion performed by deputies , and trend in number of night visits after adjusting for the increased hours during which visits are claimed .
11 These boys and girls at Wood Green school in Witney stayed behind after school once a week for the eighteen hour course .
12 After calling for a return to work they organised a series of campaigns , about censorship , the campaign for the eight hour working day .
13 The badgers are loaded into vans for the 4 hour drive to Yorkshire .
14 They were left feeling drained , insulted and angry at a man who suggested he should bill them for the five hours he spent at their home .
15 ‘ Both teams and 12 pegs for the five hour competition which was fished on the Shropshire Union Canal , ’ said Alf Whitmore , who captained the Capenhurst side .
16 There is a " down side " to this aspect of a career in advertising for the long hours can and do interfere with attempts to strike a balance between work and play , career and home .
17 Jamie was looking a little fragile and they browsed through coffee and a restrained bottle of house red for the first hour .
18 Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted .
19 Ledgered bread failed to catch for the first hour but a switch to three bronze maggot on a size 14 hook presented over the far side found chub to 2 lb 8 oz from peg one .
20 The film is bogged down in exposition for the first hour , remains plodding , and shifts uncertainly between protagonists .
21 Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers .
22 Two guineas were paid for the use of the engine and hose , with payment of two shillings for the first hour and one shilling per hour afterwards for firemen , and one shilling for the first hour and six pence afterwards for pumpers .
23 Say they started on a Monday at two o'clock in the afternoon , he or she will take them away for the first hour and go through some of the main points of their work here .
24 The Hayes Sale starts at 8.30am on December 28 with extra bargains for the first hour of the day , lasts until end of January .
25 He charges £40 for the first hour and £25 thereafter — which neatly incorporates the call-out fee in the first hour .
26 For the first hour Berowne , with his private secretary , had dealt with official papers while Dalgliesh , after a final perusal of the agenda , had settled down to re-read Trollope 's The Way We Live Now .
27 La Carlotta did not sing for the first hour .
28 I decided this would be a good experimental site on which to try my new detector , and for the first hour of detecting felt that I had been right in my assumption that I had really cleaned this place out .
29 For the first hour of that morning , from eight until nine , Coffin worked at home , drinking tea and making forays to the telephone .
30 Bill Muggeridge , he noted with regret , had been free for the first hour , when Pumfrey and Fenniway had been busy with the Fromes , but was not free again until after lunch .
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