Example sentences of "[adj] hours [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tea may be paid if overtime is outwith normal hours or a dinner if you have to work up to and after 8.30 pm , on the same basis as the lunch . |
| 2 | Two-year-old Lady would not be coaxed away from Jimmy Seymour 's van , so he had to keep the engine ticking over with the heaters full-on for eight hours while the bitch gave birth to eight healthy pups . |
| 3 | Using current methods these tests can take around eight hours and the diagnosis is not definitive . |
| 4 | To charges that this is too much of a good thing , the BBC say they have always given the World Championship around 70 hours and the audience figures remain high . |
| 5 | They 'll all start keeping strange hours so the satellite 's always somewhere else when they 're working . |
| 6 | The cheese will generally be of the right consistency in 12 hours if the cream is thoroughly good and the weather not too warm . " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There were bitter struggles in the courts on the right to strike and the power of trade unions , which led to the creation of the Labour Party , with fearful signs of a new and radical anger among the working class through and beyond the strike-bound year of 1911 when even schoolchildren came out on strike in some districts , ‘ for shorter hours and no stick ’ . |
| 9 | The footprint at site 1 is no longer evident 60 minutes after mixing , whereas that at sites 2-4 requires 2 hours before the pattern returns to that of the control . |
| 10 | 2 hours before the show starts , the Fire Brigade and 2 besuited men from the local authority are in grim conference over the safety of some fireworks in the production . |
| 11 | I finally left the area at 11.50pm , nearly 2 hours after the match ended . |
| 12 | By the weekend , around 50 flights will have been made at the rate of one every 2 hours and the deployment will be complete . |
| 13 | Some hours before the train is due to leave , a bullock-cart , or camel-cart , or perhaps even an elephant-lorry , arrives at the bungalow , and takes the whole of the load to the station , in charge of the head ‘ boy ’ . |
| 14 | We all remember well Bank statements alluding to improved customer service ; the creation of hundreds of jobs ; the smooth operation of Extended Hours and the commitment to staff input . |
| 15 | It was now over forty hours since the money had been handed over , but there had been no word of Ruggiero Miletti 's release . |
| 16 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 17 | FOUR of the five gunmen who had been occupying the Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose , Costa Rica , for nearly two weeks left the country yesterday a few hours after the siege had ended peacefully . |
| 18 | A spokesman for the ICPC said the investigation into the death started early on Sunday morning , a few hours after the body of Gerald Maginn was found . |
| 19 | But Springbok officials and security officers at the club gave a different version of the incident which occurred just a few hours after the team had arrived . |
| 20 | It was only a matter of a few hours before the stranger had been slotted into the local kinship network ; and the recognition of kinship was mutual . |
| 21 | Current holder of the European title , Griffin was only passed fit to box by the championship doctor a few hours before the action got under way . |
| 22 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 23 | It denied that it represented a danger to the public , insisting that it would have to pressed to the skin for 30 hours before the dose limit was reached . |
| 24 | The total area of erosions at three hours and six hours after the administration was 12.6 ( 3.5 ) mm and 23.2 ( 3.2 ) mm respectively ( fig 1 ) . |
| 25 | The activity of glutathione peroxidase at six hours after the administration was significantly reduced ( p<0.05 ) to195.6 ( 15.6 ) mU/mg protein ( fig 4 ) . |
| 26 | Six hours after the gassing operation began , around midday , the Mount Carmel centre burst into flames in three different places . |
| 27 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 28 | Our study shows an increased proportion of unnecessary operations among patients presenting in the early hours but no relation between the proportion of complicated appendicitis and time of presentation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The section prohibits canvassing in the sense of the attempt of an applicant or of another person at his instigation to influence a member of a licensing board to support his application for a grant , renewal or permanent transfer of a licence , or for a regular extension of permitted hours before the application is considered by the board ( subs . |