Example sentences of "[verb] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider toxic shock syndrome when severe diarrhoea and shock develop hours after even minor surgery |
| 2 | Kassebaum and Leiter state that * MEDLEARN * is used by about 400 users per year , with 200 connect hours per month . |
| 3 | In 1968 3,845 , in 1973 10,419 and as at July 1977 the total flown hours was 69,171 . |
| 4 | I had some experience of this when I lived at home , having to wait hours for the district nurses . |
| 5 | He was one of the lucky ones , some had to wait hours , even days , he said . |
| 6 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 7 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 8 | It was still raining hours later when Sara returned to the cottage . |
| 9 | I 've been able to enjoy hours of intensive cuddling , and my elder daughter Arcadia ( four — and almost as baby-mad as me ) has been in heaven too . |
| 10 | Home again , I wasted hours trying to make sense of things , and did so eventually . |
| 11 | Knowing the mountains were there , Martha passed hours gazing upwards , waiting for a break in the curtain of vapour that would give her a view to the summit , her attention fixed at that mysterious level where the mist descended on the tree-tops and blotted out the perspective entirely . |
| 12 | Prospective students , anxious for sun and romance as well as the release of their creative genius , should gird themselves by reading Swallow , Thomas 's novel about an Olympiad of storytellers which involves hours and hours of improvising in prose and verse . |
| 13 | The daily treatment involves hours of stretching and excercising with weights . |
| 14 | It is another offering from Epic Megagames whose name now guarantees hours of fun . |
| 15 | They 're sure to have the time of their lives at the Pirates Club or Club 16 , enjoying hours of fun with newfound friends and leaving you with new-found freedom . |
| 16 | All day Coleman sat in a hot studio staring at one picture and maintaining hours of nonstop commentary to out-Dimbleby the best of them . |
| 17 | It is the triangle A ' ; E ' ; E. By reducing the quantity of hours from L to L ' ; , the tax causes society to stop using hours on which the marginal social benefit , the height of the demand curve DD , exceeds the marginal social cost , the height of the supply curve SS . |
| 18 | When the chairman of the inquiry into the King 's Cross Underground fire made his report he was strongly critical of London Underground 's management ( the two top men quit hours before the report was published ) : ‘ An inward looking approach fostered by the organisation 's narrow horizons undoubtedly led to a dangerous , blinkered self-sufficiency which included a general unwillingness to take advice or accept criticism from outside bodies . ’ |
| 19 | I can guarantee hours of fun . |
| 20 | Competition , particularly between deposit-takers , i.e. banks and non-banks , is based primarily on deposit and loan interest rate differentials , access to funds , the size of the branch network , opening hours and provision of ancillary services . |
| 21 | Hire charges , opening hours or delivery/collection times , plus insurance cover for theft or damage while equipment is in your possession , should all be dealt with in advance . |
| 22 | You 'll enjoy the advantages of Britain 's most local and convenient stores with opening hours that suit you and a huge range of all the products you 'll need . |
| 23 | In contract Mr does not count hours , but arrives at an overall figure of seven thousand five hundred pounds . |
| 24 | As a breed they are not instinctive guard dogs , and their function in life is to provide hours of endless amusement and pleasure — a task which they certainly embrace whole-heartedly . |
| 25 | While both these colour books provide hours of pleasant browsing material , I do wish that the habit of printing a picture across two pages would cease , for inevitably part of the subject disappears down the crease ! |
| 26 | Forget hours of hanging around the local job centre , just pop down the pub , have a pint , and see if landlord Charles Knowles has any new employment opportunities . |
| 27 | He should have arrived or rung hours ago ! ’ |
| 28 | Many of the ancient water-clocks were instruments of considerable complexity , particularly as they were designed to indicate hours which varied throughout the year . |
| 29 | Like many below the Net , he was a night bird , keeping hours that the great City overhead thought unsociable . |
| 30 | I was fascinated by our shiny mahogany Sobell wireless set as a kid , and would wait hours for Dick Barton to emerge from the back . |