Example sentences of "[adj] hours and a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It was a long morning , but after many hours and a lot of giggling and parading , the three of them had chosen dresses .
9 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 .
10 Fermentation takes about 48 hours and a stout , full-bodied , dark beer is discernable .
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