Example sentences of "[adj] hours and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Using current methods these tests can take around eight hours and the diagnosis is not definitive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | By the weekend , around 50 flights will have been made at the rate of one every 2 hours and the deployment will be complete . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A licensing board may make regulations with respect to the making of applications for licences ( including occasional licences and occasional permissions ) , extension of permitted hours and restriction of the terminal permitted hours and the procedure following thereon , and such regulations may include provisions designed to assist the board in determining the fitness of applicants to hold licences and the expediency of granting licences for the premises in respect of which application is made ; and the board may also make regulations with respect to the procedure to be followed in transferring licences under this Act and with respect to any matters which , by virtue of this Act , may be prescribed . |
| 7 | To these premises , the permitted hours and the prohibition against the sale , supply and consumption outwith these hours do not apply with the exception of the restrictions on the sale of liquor on passenger vessels on Sundays imposed by 5.93 . |
| 8 | Proposals for social policy work included better in-bureau training for this work , recognition that social policy is sufficiently important to warrant reducing opening hours and the recruitment of volunteers to work specifically and exclusively on social policy work . |
| 9 | Wounds were then left to heal for 18 hours and the position of the epithelial wound margin was noted in relation to the mesenchymal markers ( Fig. 2 ) . |
| 10 | Not everyone can last the course down here ; they find the long hours and the winter climate not to their liking , and there is a high drop-out rate . ’ |
| 11 | Many of the child workers at the mine , suffering as they did such long hours and the effect of the physical demands of their labour , would be constrained from attending evening classes . |
| 12 | The cordon was eventually lifted at 1900 hours and the section flown home , only to prepare for a very full day 's patrolling on the following day . |
| 13 | Nobody has been through fur twenty-four hours and the telephone to Chilete , the last village before the summit , is out of action . |
| 14 | The incubation period of the virus is 24 to 48 hours and the infection is probably spread by droplets from the coughs and sneezes of those who are already suffering . |
| 15 | For most , the tedium of weekly travel , the long sitting hours and the heartache of separation from normal family life may soon begin to fade from the memory . |
| 16 | Monitoring of his circulatory state via the central venous pressure line was not required after the first 24 hours and the line was therefore removed . |
| 17 | Tom kept more erratic hours and the nature of his job often took him out of the office . |