Example sentences of "[adj] hour and a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Earlier in the week Kit Prescott and I had a long , relaxed hour and a half with one of the top African politicians . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was a long morning , but after many hours and a lot of giggling and parading , the three of them had chosen dresses . |
| 8 | There are fourteen references to defence in the index of the old Government Commission files in Registry , and I have now wasted the first hour and a half of my working day checking through them all . |