Example sentences of "hours [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A major change is one that we make to your holiday arrangements before departure , that involves changing your UK airport(s) , resort area or time of departure or return by more than twelve hours or a change of accommodation to a Club not featured in this brochure . |
| 2 | A tea may be paid if overtime is outwith normal hours or a dinner if you have to work up to and after 8.30 pm , on the same basis as the lunch . |
| 3 | Around Manchester fourteen hours or a shift system with sixteen hours on and eight off , relieving in thirds , was common . |
| 4 | And few aboard , whether captain or crew , seemed anything less than awestruck during the entire nine hours that a transit usually takes . |
| 5 | It occurred to Matt that this was the third time in about twelve hours that a woman had done that . |
| 6 | Of all the daylight hours until a dimming |
| 7 | Fermentation takes about 48 hours and a stout , full-bodied , dark beer is discernable . |
| 8 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 9 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 10 | The journey from Montrose to Laurencekirk , ten and a half miles , takes three hours and a quarter on foot , on the undulating and awkward A937 . |
| 11 | Yesterday , with two interest rates announced in three hours and a devaluation on the way , there was only one message for sterling — sell , sell , sell . |
| 12 | And since the good doctor was a lousy pilot , it was a lot of hours and a lot of money , nearly half his government salary , and almost all paid for by sympathetic friends in East Berlin . |
| 13 | It was a long morning , but after many hours and a lot of giggling and parading , the three of them had chosen dresses . |
| 14 | But planners will tell Delyn Borough planning committee today that , providing agreement can be reached on opening hours and a fume extraction system , it should be allowed . |
| 15 | Marion Balcombe , ENB director of primary health care , said that in England HVs and DNs will have to complete an open learning package of 10 to 12 hours and a lecture course of at least 15 hours . |
| 16 | Right across the road from the ‘ Vic ’ is Rockafellas , the Club 18–30 disco bar , open well into the early hours and a host of other bars and discos such as the Texas and Moby Dick 's . |
| 17 | Such firms must , however , maintain a list of all the partners at their principal premises for inspection by interested persons during normal business hours and a statement that such list is available for inspection must appear on business correspondence . |
| 18 | If the fasting breath hydrogen was greater than 12 ppm fasting was continued for up to 14 hours and a breath hydrogen persistently greater than 12 ppm at the end of this period was considered abnormal . |
| 19 | In a separate incident in Glengormley , houses were evacuated for over three hours after a suspect car was abandoned at Willowtree Park shortly after 1am yesterday . |
| 20 | As mentioned before , Mains seemed pleased with the final choice and there have been only muted complaints from about the country — although it would be hard to be too critical 24 hours after a test was won 59–6 . |
| 21 | Mr Dearlove , 31 , of Devonshire Road , Middlesbrough , died just hours after a man had appeared in court in relation to the incident . |
| 22 | The new Council was established hours after a state of emergency had been declared and was described as the country 's " supreme military and political organ " [ see p. 36449 ] . |
| 23 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 24 | Less than twenty-four hours after a bomb caused havoc at Newtownards in Northern Ireland , police foiled a major terrorist operation in Armagh following a high-speed car chase . |
| 25 | Yesterday 's warning came just 48 hours after a Catholic was shot dead by UFF gunmen in Belfast . |
| 26 | An 81-year-old woman who collapsed two hours after a robber grabbed her handbag as she left the British Legion Club in Clapham , south London , was on a life-support machine at St Thomas 's Hospital yesterday with a suspected blood clot on the brain . |