Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] hours ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The course offered here comprises five weekly sessions of two hours ' duration , costs only £16 and is open to individuals or groups . |
| 2 | As an example Russell and Macmillan ( 1952 ) quote the fact that with a westerly gale of twelve hours ' duration in the Atlantic the size of the waves reaching Cornwall would be limited by the time and not by the fetch , i.e. the distance between Cornwall and America . |
| 3 | A sentence of 120 hours ' community service on the attacker yesterday was condemned by Nicola 's mother Sue . |
| 4 | I confirm that Councillor Young came to the Department in July with five hours ' worth of videos showing how Derbyshire had been running down its schools . |
| 5 | Anna checked her stocklist for the shelf allocation for the poppadoms ( plain , spiced , garlic and chilli , ready-cooked ) with all the slick professionalism of three hours ' experience . |
| 6 | For full grant to be earned , One-Year courses extended over twenty-four weeks , each meeting of two hours ' duration with an equal division between instruction and class activity . |
| 7 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 8 | Nine healthy adult volunteers repeated the collections of urine throughout a morning after 36 hours ' treatment with ranitidine 300 mg twice daily . |
| 9 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 10 | The greater proportion ( 33 per cent ) of people said they could function on a minimum of six hours ' sleep , though many claimed they could get by on five hours ( 23 per cent ) and four hours ( 20 per cent ) . |
| 11 | He spent the first three terms as a non-collegiate student ( a ‘ tosher ’ ) , preparing himself for Responsions by means of three hours ' daily tuition directed towards entrance scholarships to Balliol in November and Merton in January ( which he failed to win ) , and then to Lincoln College , which he won easily in March 1898 because of the mature quality of his style and approach in the general essay paper . |
| 12 | In undefended divorce cases a higher initial time limit of three hours ' work applies . |
| 13 | Tests of medical house doctors after a night spent on emergency admissions ( when they got an average of 1.5 hours ' sleep ) showed them to be significantly worse at a memory task designed to tap these skills than after a night off duty . |
| 14 | However , some last-ditch defence by Karpov enabled him to reach a drawn rook and pawn endgame after 94 moves and a total of nine hours ' and 20 minutes ' play . |
| 15 | Roderick Newall , who has been held in Gibraltar since being arrested at sea last August , was kept in hospital for three hours ' observation before being returned to prison . |
| 16 | The supply of domestic staff in Britain had dwindled after the First World War , when former servants found better paid employment for fewer hours ' work in offices and factories . |
| 17 | The overcast sky was merged with spume as the salt spray stifled easy breathing and they were losing their battle with fatigue after 20 hours ' paddling . |
| 18 | If , at the end of several hours ' watching , I can walk into the Guitarist studio and sit behind the desk with any confidence at all , then I shall declare the whole operation a complete success . |
| 19 | The stimulus of the Commander 's benzedrine tablets was wearing off as he swam out to sea after three hours ' creeping and sliding around the beach , and now , his senses dulled by a chilling exhaustion , he felt the first pangs of doubt : would Roger Courtney see the flickering torch among the waves before an enemy patrol boat caught sight of it ? |
| 20 | These contain eight projects and provide material for 100–120 hours ' teaching . |