Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [num] hours [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical simplified bonus calculation would , therefore , be as follows : Total hours worked 40 Target hours for completed operations 50 Actual hours booked 35 Hours saved 15 % bonus payable ( 90% ) 13½ Hours paid 53½ |
| 2 | The five finalists had three hours to produce their creations for a jury of 12 gastronomic chroniclers ( as French food-writers entitle themselves ) and ‘ mères ’ . |
| 3 | Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again . |
| 4 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 5 | The organising committee took four hours to announce the seedings and draw order , much of the time being taken up trying to persuade West Germany , who had assumed they were going to Verona , to switch to Milan at the last moment . |
| 6 | On Creag a'Bhancair , Rab spent four hours cleaning and 40 seconds climbing ( it was starting to rain ) a line left of the start to Carnivore ; Vaguely Vegan , E2 5b was the score . |
| 7 | He and the Beeb 's head of drama Peter Cregeen spent two hours talking to executive producer Verity Lambert and staff on the set . |
| 8 | The IBM team spent 22 hours writing their letters , but the Germans take only milliseconds to create each trimer . |
| 9 | Vets spent 2 hours operating to reset the wing . |
| 10 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 11 | Majella Carroll spent eight hours walking through hills and dales in Wales to raise money to support a workshop for people with mental disorders . |
| 12 | The tables took three hours to set . |
| 13 | The jury at Manchester Crown Court took 23 hours to bring in their verdicts on four of the defendants , Glynn Williams , 29 , Mark Williams , 24 , Anthony Bush , 27 , and David Bowen , 29 . |
| 14 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 15 | Firefighters spent three hours tackling the blaze , which spread through the roof and into an adjoining property in Pensby Road . |
| 16 | Surgeons spent four hours sewing the leg back together at Wycombe General Hospital , Bucks . |
| 17 | The train took 12½ hours to reach Aberdeen . |
| 18 | I spent half an hour painting layer upon layer over the hole and went to bed , and in the morning took two hours picking the varnish off because I 'm quite hairy , and then the damn thing moved again . |
| 19 | At first , the checklist took 6 hours to get through . |
| 20 | But as the results of the inquiry were being made public , Mr Clinton spent two hours holding ‘ terrific ’ talks with the president . |
| 21 | Six demonstrators spent two hours chained to the fence at the R-A-F Aston Down Airfield near Stroud . |
| 22 | The jury took two hours to return a majority decision finding Shepherd guilty of assaulting Mr Hyslop . |
| 23 | Now the song took five hours to do |
| 24 | The blaze at St John 's Centre in Manor Farm Road took two hours to control . |
| 25 | The two men spent two hours trapped in their Ford Sierra on the M-40 at Tetsworth . |
| 26 | Face of comfort DIANA spent eight hours visiting a hospice for sufferers from cancer yesterday . |
| 27 | Police spent three hours persuading her to leave the car before taking her for counselling at a police station . |
| 28 | ‘ My daughter 's baby was born dead because the hospital took 11 hours to decide on a caesarean operation , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Police took two hours to find the wreckage and the bodies of the couple . |
| 30 | Six men take nine hours to do it . |