Example sentences of "[conj] three hours a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | At the end of two or three hours a character has emerged , one that he will refine over the next ten days , but it is essentially there now . |
2 | Through applying Mach 's training ideas , by putting in unpaid coaching for two or three hours a day , five days a week , and by keeping his doors open , he built up a group of 30 young sprinters in Toronto within a year . |
3 | I recommend that all my students listen to records at least two or three hours a day . |
4 | The practitioner will have to train two or three hours a day , every day , week in and week out . |
5 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
6 | Transport virtually nil for Africans , we have to spend two or three hours a day going to work and the same coming back tired , exhausted and risking their lives with . |
7 | The majority of the workers there work only two or three hours a day … |
8 | But probably at the stage where somebody is spending two or three hours a day erm processing invoices , trying to get cash in , erm looking at the stock control , then that 's the point where they could very well consider a small computer now . |
9 | So your rule of thumb , for starting , is that if somebody 's spending more than two or three hours a day , perhaps , on accounts or stock-taking or whatever , then it might be worth checking out the possibility of using a computer . |
10 | Recruits will be asked to work for two or three hours a week at Hugh Baird 's Oriel Road adult learning centre . |
11 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
12 | In the schools in his survey , 22 hours a week were devoted to the 3Rs , two hours a week spent on the creative arts and three hours a week given over to other studies . |