Example sentences of "hour [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charge for a lesson was 3s. 0d. a hour or a played round . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It could last for an hour or a day or days , rising and falling . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 7 | 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 … ’ |
| 8 | He was killed about an hour and a half ago during a German counter attack on our positions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | An hour and a half later , Jakki had a great interview in the can . |
| 13 | He looked round , and realized she had cleaned the whole office in the hour and a half since he had seen her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And so they sat with clammy hands for an hour and a half and let go only when the lights came back on . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I had at my command a whole hour and a quarter , and I had my voice ; but the words … |
| 20 | I do not ever recall being quite as sick and shaken as I was then , about an hour and a half ago . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Railway : The train to Salzburg takes an hour and a half and costs approx AS 270 ; alternatively Innsbruck takes two hours and costs approx AS 370 . |
| 23 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 24 | Take hour and a quarter to get home . |
| 25 | And so on and so on for another hour and a half , sweating and dazed , until at 4.48 a.m. , extremely painfully , out comes young Tom ( not such a bad name ; commonplace , I know ) , emerging head looking like a terrifically cross blue Brussels sprout , splosh go the fluids , splat goes the placenta and there he is . |
| 26 | She went for an hour and a half to give him a hot cooked dinner , which she had prepared in the morning , and to wash up afterwards . |
| 27 | Back in his small room , Sandison lay down on the bed and slept for about an hour and a half . |
| 28 | It must have been an hour and a half at least before we managed to get the thing out of the water . |
| 29 | Surely I could forget my surroundings for an hour and a half . |
| 30 | ‘ It 'll take about an hour and a half . |