Example sentences of "three hours a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of two or three hours a character has emerged , one that he will refine over the next ten days , but it is essentially there now . |
| 2 | During a tour , the straits ' live show is three hours a night , but they travel for at least three hours a day , as well as doing interviews , a sound check , eating , and phoning home . |
| 3 | I have to spend three hours a day doing all sorts of muscle-building and strengthening exercises . |
| 4 | They work in the City and they live in Lowestoft ; and , further , they spend three hours a day travelling between the two . |
| 5 | One of the most popular forms of transport in London at that time was the omnibus drawn by a pair of horses — worked for three hours a day , with a rest every half-mile — which , by 1890 , had become double-deckers with an outside staircase at the back , and which held up to twenty-six passengers . |
| 6 | Through applying Mach 's training ideas , by putting in unpaid coaching for two or three hours a day , five days a week , and by keeping his doors open , he built up a group of 30 young sprinters in Toronto within a year . |
| 7 | Though Coleridge was lonely , and made ill by the dampness of his rooms , he quickly became a regular attender at chapel , read mathematics for three hours a day , and in ‘ Leisure hours ’ was making translations of Anacreon . |
| 8 | I recommend that all my students listen to records at least two or three hours a day . |
| 9 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
| 10 | There are , of course , variations by the day of the week , and by the season of the year — though the August trough is still over three hours a day , and the December peak under five hours . |
| 11 | Some have developed leukaemia , others feel so tired that they can only attend school for three hours a day . |
| 12 | The practitioner will have to train two or three hours a day , every day , week in and week out . |
| 13 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 14 | Transport virtually nil for Africans , we have to spend two or three hours a day going to work and the same coming back tired , exhausted and risking their lives with . |
| 15 | For those reasons as I , have I , hoped made plain , it seems to me that the general scheme provided by Mrs is the one that ought to be adopted , however in my view when Mrs also makes provision for a second carer for some three hours a day that is well over egging the pudding , if I may adopt a phrase used by Mr at one stage during the case , I feel sure that in practice the two resident carers would not simply say well I 'm on duty from eight am on Monday till twelve midday on Thursday and I shall do nothing during the rest of the week , I think that living in the household for , at |
| 16 | Three hours a day for seven days a week would therefore amount to much less than the maximum for residential care . |
| 17 | The majority of the workers there work only two or three hours a day … |
| 18 | No fee but all expenses paid for a teacher working three hours a day or a half price holiday if working one hour a day . |
| 19 | But probably at the stage where somebody is spending two or three hours a day erm processing invoices , trying to get cash in , erm looking at the stock control , then that 's the point where they could very well consider a small computer now . |
| 20 | So your rule of thumb , for starting , is that if somebody 's spending more than two or three hours a day , perhaps , on accounts or stock-taking or whatever , then it might be worth checking out the possibility of using a computer . |
| 21 | During a tour , the straits ' live show is three hours a night , but they travel for at least three hours a day , as well as doing interviews , a sound check , eating , and phoning home . |
| 22 | You still doing your three hours a night revision ? |
| 23 | Three hours a night if I 'm lucky ! |
| 24 | Recent calls by the Home Office Minister , John Patten , for those who are successful to give three hours a week to voluntary causes could be taken more seriously if overall government policy were not pushing people in the opposite direction . |
| 25 | Hainge maintains he does n't make any special preparations for visitors apart from the three hours a week that he puts in routinely . |
| 26 | In the schools in his survey , 22 hours a week were devoted to the 3Rs , two hours a week spent on the creative arts and three hours a week given over to other studies . |
| 27 | In 1985–86 , for example , Roehampton Institute engaged a headteacher to work with a college for six hours a week and ten other teachers for three hours a week . |
| 28 | Thus , for example , although a miner might not personally believe that a university professor teaching three hours a week for 25 weeks of the year is doing a more worthy or important job than himself , he will nevertheless rank this occupation above his own in the construction of a prestige hierarchy because he has learnt that ‘ professors are more important than miners ’ . |
| 29 | three hours a week |
| 30 | A survey recently conducted in the US established that the average business person spends over three hours a week searching for misplaced information . |