Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hour ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 32 | At about 7.30 p.m. , after two and a half hours ' sleep curled up on the floor of the trench , I made my way out of the orchard and on to the road . |
| 33 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 34 | The task of David Pomeranz in writing , and Adrian Reynolds in presentation , was to get this story into a two and a half hours ' stage show and to make it entertaining . |
| 35 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |