Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hours [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you exclude the eight hours on average spent in bed each night , then you could be spending around 65 per cent of your entire waking life in one form of sedentary position or another . |
| 2 | Yet Cottle did not have the extensive hours of study available to the modern undergraduate . |
| 3 | The extended hours of eligibility and the greater rewards for general practitioners who make their own night visits readily explain these changes in activity . |
| 4 | ( 193 ) In Bonn , the few hours of talk and the banquets with West German leaders were made to produce , by all accounts , the information he needed . |
| 5 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 6 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 7 | In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life . |
| 8 | In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges . |
| 9 | It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield . |
| 10 | Leicestershire had the lowest hours per week for the wives perhaps because family were present on all but two farms . |
| 11 | Apart from the sacrosanct hours from midday until two , the main street is quietly busy , with queues at the two boulangeries for each fresh batch of baguettes , petanque players under the plane trees , and , on Sundays , a tiny but comprehensive market . |
| 12 | Sometimes in the early hours of morning I 'd wake to hear her crying . |
| 13 | During closure , they found , the outer surface of the leaf expands ; but during the 10 hours of reopening , the inner surface slowly expands . |
| 14 | For example , between 1920 and 1953 in the United States in the manufact uring industry the average hours of work decreased by ten : from fifty to forty hours . |
| 15 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 16 | The extra hours in department X are 40 hours * 4 weeks = 160 hours . |
| 17 | She sat there in silence , and resentment made her cheeks hot : she resented the wasted hours of battle with her own desires , she resented her failed and needless attempts at empire , she was filled with hatred at the thought of lost anticipations . |
| 18 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 19 | A common criticism levelled at the preregistration year concerns the long hours of work . |
| 20 | He did not have time to study any more , and the long hours of work on the farm made him tired and dull . |
| 21 | Furthermore , the long hours of housework are , as many feminists have stressed , unpaid and do not receive any recognition as productive labour in national income statistics . |
| 22 | If they were not lying securely in their graves , awaiting the Day of Judgement , what might they not be up to in the long hours of darkness , as the boards creaked and the wind howled on Wuthering Heights ? |
| 23 | It will reveal the limitations to the interpretation a player can give , say , Bartok 's ‘ Mikrokosmos ’ without the long hours of practice and thought which are currently necessary for the mastery of both the piano and the music itself . |
| 24 | Construction tends to plough on regardless of the weather , but the long hours of daylight are a big plus and sunshine is a decided improvement over icy winds . |
| 25 | Music , for both of us , is a part of life we treasure , and Michael has found his records and tapes a constant source of happiness during the long hours of inactivity forced upon him . |
| 26 | And in Gascoigne 's absence he played the fool to lighten the mood during the long hours of inactivity that footballers must put up with . |
| 27 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |
| 28 | There , as a mid-wife explains , he is standing on his head , whiling away the long hours of labour with yoga practice . |
| 29 | ‘ All that intense passion , the long hours in bed when you made love to me over and over , but never said anything — it just turned me off . |
| 30 | In the frozen hours of dawn it all appeared rather benign , but on our return , some five weeks later , we were forced to run a sobering gauntlet . |