Example sentences of "[adj] hour and a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | That was some hour and a half away . |
2 | Marion Balcombe , ENB director of primary health care , said that in England HVs and DNs will have to complete an open learning package of 10 to 12 hours and a lecture course of at least 15 hours . |
3 | It was a very low-budget British picture , shot at Pinewood studios in black and white and sought to do little more than provide an entertaining hour and a half or so , with a topic to which a great many people could relate — National Service . |
4 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
5 | And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is . |
6 | Ellen and I lingered on in Mama Sipcott 's for another hour and a half ; indulging in the sailor 's shorebound pastime of planning the perfect voyage . |
7 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
8 | But a doctor did n't arrive for another hour and a half , by which time Mrs Johansen had died from a heart attack brought on by the fracture . |
9 | I bet he does n't get up till about , well it 's eleven now I 'll give him another hour and a half ! |
10 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
11 | Right across the road from the ‘ Vic ’ is Rockafellas , the Club 18–30 disco bar , open well into the early hours and a host of other bars and discos such as the Texas and Moby Dick 's . |
12 | But planners will tell Delyn Borough planning committee today that , providing agreement can be reached on opening hours and a fume extraction system , it should be allowed . |
13 | Earlier in the week Kit Prescott and I had a long , relaxed hour and a half with one of the top African politicians . |
14 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
15 | Yesterday , with two interest rates announced in three hours and a devaluation on the way , there was only one message for sterling — sell , sell , sell . |
16 | The journey from Montrose to Laurencekirk , ten and a half miles , takes three hours and a quarter on foot , on the undulating and awkward A937 . |
17 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
18 | It was a long morning , but after many hours and a lot of giggling and parading , the three of them had chosen dresses . |
19 | That 's allowing a a good hour and a quarter . |
20 | Supper had been over a good hour and a half . |
21 | Oh a good hour and a half |
22 | I called and whistled and waited a full hour and a half , No Dawn . |
23 | He arrives in London by train in exactly ’ , Dr Mortimer looked at his watch , ‘ one hour and a quarter . ’ |
24 | By the finish of yesterday 's race he was 35 seconds ahead of second placed Gerhard Berger — and had covered the equivalent distance of London to Manchester in a little more than one hour and a half . |
25 | He fished bloodworm and a three metre whip from a peg near the greenhousees and after a blank first hour and a half eventually caught around 100 fish . |
26 | There are fourteen references to defence in the index of the old Government Commission files in Registry , and I have now wasted the first hour and a half of my working day checking through them all . |
27 | If the fasting breath hydrogen was greater than 12 ppm fasting was continued for up to 14 hours and a breath hydrogen persistently greater than 12 ppm at the end of this period was considered abnormal . |
28 | Today I experienced a most interesting , extraordinary and traumatic hour and a half . |
29 | Fermentation takes about 48 hours and a stout , full-bodied , dark beer is discernable . |
30 | Has he forgotten , within the past hour and a half , the belly laughs that he got from his own Back Benchers with his stories of social security fraud ? |