Example sentences of "two hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hardest two hours of my life were spent trying to persuade David Nelson to take up his appeals . |
| 2 | After two hours Ii managed to get David to sign the papers knowing full well that , after over 12 years of living in those conditions , I would probably want to die myself . |
| 3 | In the first term , rehearsals for the production project will usually be around two hours in length , but progressively more time will be spent on this aspect of the course as the student advances . |
| 4 | Then Sven Hjerson took his revenge for the past tiresome two hours . |
| 5 | Some two hours later the whole party sat , exhausted and silent , in deckchairs on the terrace of Sven Hjerson 's hotel , sipping half-heartedly at cups of abominable tea and looking without seeing anything at the wide sweep of the Bay of Naples spread out far below them . |
| 6 | All my efforts were concentrated on keeping up appearances during those two hours of the day when I was with them . |
| 7 | Put lots on and reapply at least every two hours , as sweat , water , wind and towel friction will wear it away . |
| 8 | Menzies and Fleming will never forget that two hours riding backwards , with every soul from Dull to Aberfeldy having a good look at their humiliation . ’ |
| 9 | Donald came down two hours ago , and would you believe it , Bisset will not come to marry them . ’ |
| 10 | They remembered this two hours later as they stood on the meadow in front of the big house at Fortingall , waiting for a crowd to gather . |
| 11 | It took her two hours to come up with that . ’ |
| 12 | I work out with weights for two hours on Saturdays . |
| 13 | I had arrived at the bus stop two hours early . |
| 14 | Perhaps a more important advantage of Solvent Free Varnish is that it is touch dry in 20 minutes , and ready for a further coat in two hours . |
| 15 | You may be looking for light domestic help one or two hours per week , or 24-hour a day care . |
| 16 | The train was running approximately two hours late due to a broken rail at Northallerton . |
| 17 | Southern Region general manager Gordon Pettitt took a calculated gamble when he authorised a charity high-speed run to Weymouth on 14 April , when the special train completed the 142½ mile trip to Weymouth in seconds within two hours with a maximum speed of 109mph . |
| 18 | ( As played by the Moscow Arts Theatre , Turgenev 's A Month in the Country takes over two hours , Ashton 's ballet roughly half an hour . ) |
| 19 | As we descended it became increasingly hot , and in the space of two hours we had dropped from rolling grassy hills to a sandy , semi-desert plain . |
| 20 | It is easy to apply and can be used on wood or metal , inside or out , and its quick-drying formulation means it is touch-dry in two hours and ready for over-coating in six . |
| 21 | Easy to use , the new paints require no undercoat and are quick to dry — touch dry in two hours and recoatable after six . |
| 22 | Surface-dry in two hours , it can be recoated overnight . |
| 23 | After almost two hours at the wheel yesterday , Senna limped away from his car , the only obvious sign that he had suffered from brake trouble during the last quarter of the 73-lap race . |
| 24 | MPs spent two hours discussing the make-up of a committee to draw up a new system of presidential power and cabinet veto , and it was significant that the 12 names mentioned for the committee included several Christian deputies , but only one Maronite . |
| 25 | Chartered trains were due to leave Prague yesterday evening , but had failed to appear more than two hours after the appointed time . |
| 26 | About 1,000 BP employees in Glasgow evacuated their offices for two hours yesterday after a pipe in the chilling plant of an air conditioning system broke loose , releasing gas into the building . |
| 27 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 28 | PARAMILITARY police fired shots and sealed off Panama 's opposition headquarters yesterday , locking former presidential candidate Guillermo Endara inside for two hours after opposition leaders held a press conference to deny involvement in prior knowledge of Tuesday 's failed coup attempt . |
| 29 | The main Environment debate ( Wednesday ) has been extended to two hours . |
| 30 | The Lions had squeezed in two light training sessions amounting to little more than two hours before beating France 29-27 on Wednesday night in a game as grand as its occasion . |