Example sentences of "[adv] for [art] hour [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local hire is possible for those on shore holidays who can go ‘ there and back ’ , and just wish to potter locally for an hour or two . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's getting on for an hour since we left Cartier . ’ |
| 3 | so you 've turned your kilow three kilowatt heater on for an hour and I 'm gon na charge you , le let's say , thirty pence . |
| 4 | The the problem that we did have , I mean my normal lecturing style until here in fact , was that I would just waffle y'know and generally do a few bits on the board and then carry on for an hour or two but the sh people were n't getting the notes down , that was the problem with that . |
| 5 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 6 | The breakdown was only for an hour and a half the lorries turned up and the breakdown was happening . |
| 7 | After that for six days little smoke columns seemed to be sprouting up all over the forest , now here , now there , but only for an hour or two . |
| 8 | ‘ Only for an hour or so , ’ said Joe . |
| 9 | Snuggling into his chair , he settled down for an hour or two 's tinkering . |
| 10 | Her hair was put up with rhinestone forget-me-nots instead of diamanté ones and when her friend Mr Lewis says : ‘ might I divest you of your plastic mac ? ’ the whole process shut down for an hour or so whilst six fairly literate people racked their brains for a ‘ mac ’ substitute . |
| 11 | I recall my own final visit to the farm where he was allowed down for an hour and where the flame was rekindled for that period sufficiently for us to forget his illness and think only that the old Nye had been restored . |
| 12 | Bobby expects to make up a party from the works and we shall come along for an hour or two . ’ |
| 13 | A few minutes ' walk away the Boulevard Gallieni has been renamed the Boulevard Soummam but it is still spectacular : wide enough for the sun to congregate here for most of the day , not simply dropping in for an hour as it always has to in the canyon streets of Manhattan . |
| 14 | In 1980 we changed to a system of community and private nurses who came in for an hour or two in the morning and evening . |
| 15 | Among those who glibly encouraged the notion was J B Priestley , who wrote of football turning its fans into ‘ a new community , all brothers together for an hour and a half … an altogether more splendid kind of life ’ . |
| 16 | On the summer 's day that Michael Caine was being interviewed , he and the researcher sat and watched Wimbledon on the telly together for an hour or so before they got down to work . |
| 17 | Some who were working intended to slip away for an hour or so . |
| 18 | ‘ I just go out for a bit , just for an hour or two , and when I come back you ai n't even got the kettle on . |
| 19 | In the 1920s , the incidents were a little more prosaic — but useful if they gave the patrolling constable something to chuckle over for an hour or two . |
| 20 | Now I find if you put it aside for an hour or two and do something else you can already come to it fresh . |
| 21 | When the baby cries a lot , and Lesley gets angry with her , I tell her to go off for an hour and I 'll look after her . |
| 22 | Leave the lights off for an hour or so after you have added the fish to the tank , to give them a chance to settle . |
| 23 | In this country , delivery-ward routines vary from hospital to hospital but there 's no reason for separating mothers and their healthy babies so soon after the birth — measuring and weighing could easily be put off for an hour or two . |
| 24 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 25 | He said OK rewrite them , so I held things up for an hour and at the end of it he said he was n't convinced . |
| 26 | We get the whole thing seized up for an hour and a half in the morning and an hour and a half in the evening . |
| 27 | The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip . |
| 28 | Wind was measured at 11.00 and 15.00 each day , but only counted if it kept up for an hour or more . |
| 29 | Amaranth had no wish to be caught napping in the lounge of the Grand Hotel ; how much better to return to ‘ Mon Repos ’ and put her feet up for an hour or so . |
| 30 | ‘ They will arrive at twelve and stay probably for an hour and a half or so . |