Example sentences of "hours ['s] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless there is exceptional need they only work from Monday to Friday , and as the service is very short-staffed in many areas most people can only receive a few hours ' help a week ; although in special cases daily help can be arranged . |
| 2 | However , despite the extension of ICA to working-age married women in 1986 following a successful appeal to the European Court , ICA is still received by less than one-tenth of all carers who are providing thirty-five hours ' help a week ( McLaughlin , 1991 , p. 2 ) . |
| 3 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 4 | Harry Lamb worked on his father 's farm , managed on five hours ' sleep a night and studied to prepare himself for the Church of Ireland ministry . |
| 5 | In a larger study assessing endurance over nine days under different levels of sleep loss , the APRE reported that with no sleep at all soldiers could only operate effectively for four days , while with I.5 hours ' sleep a day 50 per cent of a platoon lasted nine days in the field , and nearly all of a platoon allowed 3 hours sleep completed the nine-day exercise . |
| 6 | Rupert 's surviving on 5 hours ' sleep a night . |