Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a hour [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if you two charming ladies , and Herbert here , can persuade your betters to free you from the chains for an hour or two , we 're as good as on our way ! ’ |
| 2 | Each morning after the bathroom run , the three of us were let off the chains for an hour or so to exercise . |
| 3 | When this has been the case for an hour or so I pick up my tackle and move . |
| 4 | In old age Arthur would still come to the brewery for an hour or two every day and later ride on horseback to his flour mills at Kilmainham . |
| 5 | Often there is no further change for an hour or so . |
| 6 | Being pushed for time , it can be tempting for midwives to go for a shortcut solution — one that does n't involve sitting with a mum for an hour or more , as often as necessary , supporting her , encouraging her and increasing her confidence . |
| 7 | Hudson and Kuiper extended their stand for an hour until Kuiper , battling for form , was caught behind off Patrick Patterson for a laboured , but vital 34 spanning three and a quarter hours . |
| 8 | Four fire engines two from Granagetown and two from Middlesbrough fought the flames for an hour before the blaze was under control . |
| 9 | Sometimes she eased the weight that lay on Scarlet 's heart for an hour or two , but the relief never lasted . |
| 10 | Is it twenty P for an hour or thirty P ? |
| 11 | I am a walker and often enough would just meander through the parish of an afternoon for an hour or so — many of the people would say hello and stop for a word . |
| 12 | The two of them stayed sitting and talking in the kitchen for an hour or so longer , and then , at about six o'clock , Matilda said goodnight and set out to walk home to her parent 's house , which was about an eight-minute journey away . |
| 13 | I must have been with the vet for an hour but the driver was still waiting to take me home . |
| 14 | And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half . |
| 15 | ( Platform 3 was used at least once last summer to house Hinton Manor for an hour or two on the wonderful occasions when Aberystwyth saw two standard gauge steam engines — Keith Lucas ) Some alterations are being discussed to the run round facilities , which are now only used regularly by the petroleum traffic . |
| 16 | Would you like to become a journalist for an hour or so , and copy out one or two ‘ In Years Gone By columns for us from the files ? |
| 17 | They sat outside shivering in a big green car for an hour and a half , and they ai n't been back since . |
| 18 | And we 'd sit there in the car for an hour or so , chatting through what we were trying to do . |
| 19 | Structuring a complex essay may demand total , uninterrupted concentration for an hour or more before lunch . |
| 20 | ‘ You can park here and see a good deal of stock in an hour or two , ’ claims Barbara Humble , who moved out from Bath two years ago . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll call the press and get the TV cameras out to Monument Hill in an hour or so , ’ said Ray Shepherd . |
| 22 | I do n't know whether people think they can move a dust extract in an hour or two hours . |
| 23 | These are dusk to around 1.30 a.m. , and from first glimmer of light to an hour or so after sun-up . |
| 24 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |
| 25 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 26 | Oh I should think it would be the best part of an hour and er then I 'd go along Street down into Walker Brothers call in my father 's office . |
| 27 | Luyt remembers it being set very quickly , in the course of an hour or so ) . |
| 28 | During the course of an hour or so these were removed and replaced with remarkable regularity . |
| 29 | He got his brother to look after the bar for an hour or so , bundled Maidstone into a taxi driven by a friend of his and set off for Maidstone 's apartment in the Vomero . |
| 30 | Overall the unit worked very well but the initial feeling that it looked really smart slowly evaporated once it had sat on the desk for an hour or two . |