Example sentences of "hours [conj] 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 | This rocket-shaped machine can travel along the inside of the pipe , and weld a section together in four minutes instead of the 16 hours that a skilled welder would take . |
| 7 | And few aboard , whether captain or crew , seemed anything less than awestruck during the entire nine hours that a transit usually takes . |
| 8 | It occurred to Matt that this was the third time in about twelve hours that a woman had done that . |
| 9 | The daily schedule of an 8.30 press conference followed by a flight , a bus , a walkabout , a lunch with regional media chiefs , a factory visit , a couple of interviews , a speech and another flight has often meant shorter working hours than a parliamentary day . |
| 10 | This living nightmare lasted for many hours until a sickly daylight showed again and the sun could be seen once more through the haze of dust . |
| 11 | Of all the daylight hours until a dimming |
| 12 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 13 | In the survey 37% of the wives wanted any courses to coincide with school hours and a further 8% to be near play school facilities . |
| 14 | Right across the road from the ‘ Vic ’ is Rockafellas , the Club 18–30 disco bar , open well into the early hours and a host of other bars and discos such as the Texas and Moby Dick 's . |
| 15 | But curators have keys to museums after hours and a big deep bath of unlimited hot water back home where wives have dinner waiting . |
| 16 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 17 | The reissue of an exit visa took two hours and a thousand riyals . |
| 18 | Marion Balcombe , ENB director of primary health care , said that in England HVs and DNs will have to complete an open learning package of 10 to 12 hours and a lecture course of at least 15 hours . |
| 19 | What 's forty-eight hours and a good part of it taken up on the train ! |
| 20 | Yesterday , with two interest rates announced in three hours and a devaluation on the way , there was only one message for sterling — sell , sell , sell . |
| 21 | Unemployment payments led to increased government spending and the trades unions wanted to tackle West Germany 's problems by higher wages to stimulate demand , and shorter hours and a lower retirement age to ease unemployment . |
| 22 | If , however , it 's absorbed by osmosis through the skin , it simply paralyses in a death-like state for anything between a few hours and a few days , depending on the dosage . |
| 23 | It took four hours and a long phone call to find the answer . |
| 24 | There is one basic hourly rate with a limited number of hours and a single overtime rate . |
| 25 | The journey from Montrose to Laurencekirk , ten and a half miles , takes three hours and a quarter on foot , on the undulating and awkward A937 . |
| 26 | Instead , she channels the commitment he foresaw into publishing , putting long hours and a great deal of enthusiasm into work she obviously enjoys . |
| 27 | And since the good doctor was a lousy pilot , it was a lot of hours and a lot of money , nearly half his government salary , and almost all paid for by sympathetic friends in East Berlin . |
| 28 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 29 | The seal is broken and the tube worn on the clothing of the operator for at least two hours and a simple calculation made to ascertain the ppm of the gas during that time . |
| 30 | If the fasting breath hydrogen was greater than 12 ppm fasting was continued for up to 14 hours and a breath hydrogen persistently greater than 12 ppm at the end of this period was considered abnormal . |