Example sentences of "hour [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Country Living : A few hours or a few weeks before the mast With air like this , it 's a sin not to get out into it . |
| 2 | A major change is one that we make to your holiday arrangements before departure , that involves changing your UK airport(s) , resort area or time of departure or return by more than twelve hours or a change of accommodation to a Club not featured in this brochure . |
| 3 | A tea may be paid if overtime is outwith normal hours or a dinner if you have to work up to and after 8.30 pm , on the same basis as the lunch . |
| 4 | Around Manchester fourteen hours or a shift system with sixteen hours on and eight off , relieving in thirds , was common . |
| 5 | In two hours or a little less , it would end , and Thorfinn would come in , a little drunk or more than a little drunk , as he could afford to be only in Caithness and Orkney , and so deliver himself , briefly , into her charge . |
| 6 | And then erm they 'll have a couple of hours or an hour break there probably and then erm |
| 7 | The charge for a lesson was 3s. 0d. a hour or a played round . |
| 8 | It is here in the tiny , pumping heart of Europe 's ready-to-wear industry that hundreds of sans-papiers , immigrants without work permits , come to be taken on for errands that could last half an hour or a day . |
| 9 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |
| 10 | The hurricane , the flood or the tsunami may do more in an hour or a day than the ordinary processes of nature have achieved in a thousand years . |
| 11 | As a result just one Bq of Caesium-137 , contained in one litre of milk , will undergo a tiny explosion every second ; 60 explosions every minute , 3,600 explosions every hour or a total of three to seven million tiny atomic explosions in its stay in our bodies — any one of which can cause cell mutations which eventually lead to cancer or genetic damage . |
| 12 | sort of read through a bit about it and then when you 've read it , put the book away and leave it for half an hour or an hour or something and then try and draw a rough outline of some of the main points . |
| 13 | If you just have that one lesson , and he explains it to your properly , and he sets you some exercises , on what you 've just done , half an hour or an hour ago , you 'll get through them . |
| 14 | It 's so difficult to add up the the hours , but I mean it 's a number of days of course it 's not working solidly you know , maybe only for an up an hour or an hour . |
| 15 | Half an hour or an hour . |
| 16 | In about half an hour or an hour . |
| 17 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 18 | This we did , for in about an hour and a quarter from the time of our beginning the ascent , we found ourselves on the top of this dreadful precipice , and in possession of some very uncommon plants … ’ |
| 19 | He was killed about an hour and a half ago during a German counter attack on our positions . |
| 20 | He fished bloodworm and a three metre whip from a peg near the greenhousees and after a blank first hour and a half eventually caught around 100 fish . |
| 21 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 22 | Back at the Military Port in Marchwood , the working day for the remainder of the regiment would not start for another hour and a half . |
| 23 | An hour and a half later , Jakki had a great interview in the can . |
| 24 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 25 | Within an hour and a half , the Exxon Valdez had eluded the coastguard radar tracking system and plunged at full speed on to the rocks of Bligh Reef , rupturing eight cargo holds , each big enough to house a 15-storey building . |
| 26 | As on every other Saturday morning , the inhabitants of Little Saigon in Orange county will crowd around their televisions to watch an hour and a half of Vietnamese programmes . |
| 27 | Stewart stayed with him for about an hour and a half and Lamb hung around for a while , but Smith was his main ally and , as the day ebbed away , it seemed as though only the new ball stood between England and a draw . |
| 28 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 29 | I was on to the exchange for your name and number as soon as the news came through , but it took me an hour and a half to bully someone into looking up where the phone-box was . |
| 30 | I had at my command a whole hour and a quarter , and I had my voice ; but the words … |