Example sentences of "five hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our second meeting , once the regulative café au lait had been taken and a strenuous five hours of talk had been put behind us , was concluded by a guided tour of his beloved Montreal , whose night-time allurements were enthusiastically described in a car hired for the occasion , and concluded by a celebratory meal at one of his favourite Indian restaurants , toasting each other 's health and futures in an excellent Chablis . |
| 2 | Generally , when you played Jimmy Connors you understood you were going to stay out on the court for four or five hours , at least . ’ |
| 3 | Business people — no longer prepared to spend five hours or more on a daytime Euston-Glasgow journey — had switched to air , while leisure travellers had been lured away by the bargain-priced coaches . |
| 4 | His brother , who lives in the same house , spoke with Mr Mandela for five hours on 4 August . |
| 5 | Many of the coup participants surrendered to General Noriega personally , and more than 200 soldiers who backed the uprising were arrested after nearly five hours of fighting . |
| 6 | In fact , Ninagawa takes just one month to direct a production and rehearses only five hours a day . |
| 7 | That was before the running street-battles of the weekend , when a demonstration around the church was broken up by a police riot which lasted five hours . |
| 8 | The ride will take the top competitors less than five hours , but the race will still not be over , as there is still a full marathon to be run . |
| 9 | The French Officer gets us all out of the ditch and the march continues for about four or five hours , then , during a rest in the wood , I fall asleep , my face among the leaves reminding me of my home in Scotland . |
| 10 | No Bishop of Durham could ever forget , or was ever allowed to forget , how one of his predecessors Westcott mediated in a bitter strike ; how a vast crowd stood outside Auckland Castle , seeing the owners through the windows of one room and the miners through the windows of another , waiting for five hours as they watched the bishop go to and fro between the two rooms ; until he brought the parties to a happy agreement , and when he came out among the crowd he received an ovation . |
| 11 | Paul , 27 , from Hanworth , Middlesex , spent a blank five hours at the water and had just changed swims when the pike took a float fished trout on 12 lb line with size 8 barbless trebles . |
| 12 | Five hours later , when police reinforcements finally arrived , the booth was still firmly closed . |
| 13 | But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition . |
| 14 | All that took some five hours for very little result . |
| 15 | Boycott stayed over five hours for 70 but had no lengthy support , Botham holed out in the deep when his responsibility as captain was to put his head down , and England never looked as though they were going to make it . |
| 16 | It took him just five hours , included 29 fours , and took him past 4,000 Test runs ( a milestone Botham had passed earlier in the game ) . |
| 17 | The first Test lasted two days and five hours on a pitch that was very hard , very fast and some way from flat . |
| 18 | The declaration at 246 for 2 left England 410 runs behind , with five hours fifty minutes plus the last twenty overs to survive . |
| 19 | The hero next day was Russell , defending for over five hours without giving a chance ; not bad for a man whose entry into the Test team was delayed because he supposedly could not bat . |
| 20 | It lasts five hours and is being conducted by Dr Rajko Medenica . |
| 21 | He read another article which said : ‘ The average British couple watches television together for five hours every night and speaks about 150 words per person in conversation . ’ |
| 22 | I have a blister under my right ear , and I take twenty-five drops of laudanum every five hours , the ease and spirits gained by which have enabled me to write you this flighty but not exaggerated account . |
| 23 | And a joke doing the rounds in various parts of the Reich had a Berliner complaining about the severity of a raid which caused all the glass to fall out of window-frames as much as five hours later and his partner from Essen retorting that that was nothing at all : pictures of the Führer were still flying out of the window fourteen days after the last attack on Essen . |
| 24 | They took five hours to get it out ; and there was a man in the next room who was not so lucky as I was . |
| 25 | In the discussion which followed the Zuwaya argued that five hours had passed and they had elected no one : in view of the late hour and the irregularities ( another Magharba member of the local Assembly , doubling as an electoral officer , was suspected of cheating and was escorted out by police ) it would be better to hold the elections another day . |
| 26 | The area had effectively been abandoned by the authorities , a fact which became clear during the riot itself , when police waited five hours to enter the estate and put down the disturbances . |
| 27 | It was early morning , but since all trains in Russia run on Moscow time , which is five hours behind , the platform clock confusingly said 1am . |
| 28 | They claim that the education authority 's official statement of his learning difficulties failed to specify the amount of extra teaching he should have , and that his school was unable to provide the five hours a week one-to-one lessons they believe he needs . |
| 29 | In the other semi-final Brackley 's Ray Gaskins , Gary Harrington and Ted Hanger took nearly five hours to overcome a stubborn Paddington side comprising Alan Lines and internationals Gerry Smyth and Steve Halmai . |
| 30 | The US government , which has no relations with the PLO and has sought consistently to keep it out of the Middle East peace process , said the request was still being discussed five hours later when news arrived that the 62-year-old chairman had been found . |