Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [num] hours [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah because if you want to go to Southwell at the present moment you go on a bus and you got to wait two hours to get one back . |
| 2 | Joe the jet pilot has logged 100 hours flying his plane at a Speed of 548.25km per hour . |
| 3 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 4 | Hick had to wait 48 hours to chalk up the final six runs to complete the milestone after reaching 82 not out on Thursday . |
| 5 | I just do n't know what it 's gon na be like , er , so I think if we , well at ten o'clock , if we left at ten , we 've got twelve hours to get down there |
| 6 | Well it 's a hundred and sixty eight , seven times twenty four , but then you 've got five hours to add onto it which makes it a hundred and seventy three , right , so now work out your average speeds . |
| 7 | You 've got nine hours left to win the game . |
| 8 | Yet when I tumble out and start pulling my clothes on again , my spirits rise like it 's a sunny morning and I 've had ten hours sleep . |
| 9 | The passengers had spent six hours stuck without explanation in Winnipeg . |
| 10 | The fact that all the nation 's radio stations , including City Radio , had spent two hours denouncing the hoax call of the breakfast hour was irrelevant . |
| 11 | I had spent four hours catching nothing and he simply swooped down and lifted a trout of at least 2lb from under my nose . |
| 12 | But Mr Urbanec pointed to hardline resistance to change within the party by revealing to the opposition that he had spent three hours seeking , apparently in vain , to persuade regional party barons that their ‘ policy of power ’ could not continue . |
| 13 | Such was the confusion that the BBC , who had spent three hours covering the race , only just managed to catch the men 's finish and went off air without knowing the second and third-placed finishers , despite a warning on Friday that such an eventuality was possible . |
| 14 | It was already half-past twelve and unlikely that the lads had taken three hours buying bread . |
| 15 | Three hundred extra helpers were recruited to give eight hours help in the three months before the election , or two Saturday mornings , or four evenings in the final two months . |
| 16 | Then you have to have twelve hours fasting too . ’ |