Example sentences of "[coord] a [adj] hours [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 2 | The actual report is completed in one and a half hours under examination conditions . |
| 3 | We were two and a half hours over guidebook time : so much for the armchair boasts of perfect stamina ! |
| 4 | The show is one and a half hours of entertainment for children of all ages . |
| 5 | After two and a half hours of deliberation , they awarded damages against The Sun , editor Kelvin MacKenzie and freelance journalist Ken Irwin . |
| 6 | three and a half hours of work . |
| 7 | Subdued , tired , and recovering from two and a half hours of surgery Frankie Vaughan still knew how to make an entrance . |
| 8 | They found that much of the large negative basis in the first one and a half hours of trading was due to the use of stale prices from Friday 16 October in computing the index . |
| 9 | BARB 's research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day ( and has done so for at least the last 10 years ) , just over half of this being ITV . |
| 10 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |
| 11 | Two and a half hours for setup at twenty eight pounds an hour . |
| 12 | EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval . |
| 13 | Lumbar puncture , performed three and a half hours after admission , showed turbid cerebrospinal fluid containing 1500 white cells/µl ( 100% polymorphs ) , protein 5.7 g/l ( normal 0.15–0.45 g/l ) , and glucose 1.2 mmol/l . |
| 14 | Three and a half hours after noon , he was close enough to the Earn to hear the shouting and deduce that the army landed that morning at Levenmouth had completed its march northwards through Fife and even its struggle , harassed by Tuathal , through the defile of Glen Farg , and was now here , on one side or the other of the Earn crossing . |
| 15 | Wool sorters at Exeter worked " from the time of being able to discern the wool until the evening " , which amounted to about eight and a half hours in winter and twelve in summer . |
| 16 | The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas . |
| 17 | Angers is within easy reach of Paris ( 2 and a half hours by train ) , Brittany and the Mont-St-Michel , perhaps France 's most beautiful monument . |
| 18 | Eight miles further on were Mick and Paddy — I had two and a half hours before sunset to reach them . |
| 19 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |