Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun] [prep] [art] hours " in BNC.
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1 | According to Asser 's Life of King Alfred , that intellectual monarch had candles of equal length lit successively to mark the passing of the hours ; but , as Bloch remarks , ‘ such concern for uniformity in the division of the day was exceptional in that age . ’ |
2 | This is your room , hello , we 'll have to fix that bulb , may I ask you not to flush the toilet between the hours of eleven at night and seven in the morning while the sanitation department is still in , do n't be alarmed , cockroaches are a way of life in this part of the world , the gekkos are friendly too , although they wo n't eat the spiders . |
3 | In February , councillors refused to allow a variation of the hours . |
4 | The law against sex discrimination was strengthened by the Sex Discrimination Act of 1986 which removed the restrictions on the hours women could work , allowing both night work and shift work , and gave women the right to work until the same age as their male colleagues . |
5 | mark the passing of the hours . |
6 | Organization can not , of itself free the teacher from the hours of planning and thought that lie behind the achievement of successful learning in his students . |
7 | See the discussion on the hours in a week in chapter 2 . |