Example sentences of "[conj] a [adj] hours a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 2 | Only three housewives had paid domestic help at the time of the interview : two for six hours a week and one for five and a half hours a fortnight . |
| 3 | Children spend some five and a half hours a day in a classroom for 40 weeks a year . |
| 4 | The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk . |
| 5 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
| 6 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
| 7 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
| 8 | has got nothing to do with it but she 's working an extra two and a half hours a week and getting half an hour off , you know I mean you , in all |