Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | The telephone has to be manned 24 hours a day , 7 days a week , so when it is my turn on duty ( at night or at the weekends ) , answering the phone occupies much of my time . |
| 2 | As detailed on May 2 , the measures gave the government the technical right to dismiss strikers in these sectors and laid down that strikes in non-essential services had to be approved by an assembly of at least one-third of union members concerned , while in essential services strikes had to be announced 48 hours in advance and a minimum level of service ensured . |
| 3 | As Hubel remarked ‘ no one needs or wants to be reminded sixteen hours a day that his shoes are on ’ . |
| 4 | Finally deciding it was not only pointless , but spineless as well to stand at the door waiting for a man who would n't come , she went up to bed , and surprisingly she fell asleep almost at once , only to be woken some hours later by a violent storm . |
| 5 | The cases involved the states of Minnesota ( where both parents had to be informed 48 hours prior to an abortion ) , and Ohio ( where 24 hours ' notice to one parent was required ) . |
| 6 | In the end the attack had had to be postponed forty-eight hours , so that , once again , the advantage of a sychronised effort on both sides of the Meuse was lost . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know I was supposed to be keeping office-boy hours . ’ |
| 8 | He used to be working fourteen hours a day in the shipyards of the Loire . |
| 9 | Now that report usually had to be filed 48 hours after he went down . |
| 10 | To do this the Germans had divided the Verdun front into a number of very small sectors , each of which was to be patrolled twenty-four hours a day by two planes . |