Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hours of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Cottle did not have the extensive hours of study available to the modern undergraduate . |
| 2 | The extended hours of eligibility and the greater rewards for general practitioners who make their own night visits readily explain these changes in activity . |
| 3 | ( 193 ) In Bonn , the few hours of talk and the banquets with West German leaders were made to produce , by all accounts , the information he needed . |
| 4 | It took the squadron all the remaining hours of daylight to clean up the airfield . |
| 5 | Sometimes in the early hours of morning I 'd wake to hear her crying . |
| 6 | During closure , they found , the outer surface of the leaf expands ; but during the 10 hours of reopening , the inner surface slowly expands . |
| 7 | For example , between 1920 and 1953 in the United States in the manufact uring industry the average hours of work decreased by ten : from fifty to forty hours . |
| 8 | Her Dutch cleaning lady would be coming round in the morning — let her do it , thought an exhausted Olga a few minutes later , as she shakily bathed her face under the cold tap ; Boyd could darn well pay her more housekeeping to cover the extra hours of work . |
| 9 | She sat there in silence , and resentment made her cheeks hot : she resented the wasted hours of battle with her own desires , she resented her failed and needless attempts at empire , she was filled with hatred at the thought of lost anticipations . |
| 10 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |
| 11 | A common criticism levelled at the preregistration year concerns the long hours of work . |
| 12 | He did not have time to study any more , and the long hours of work on the farm made him tired and dull . |
| 13 | Furthermore , the long hours of housework are , as many feminists have stressed , unpaid and do not receive any recognition as productive labour in national income statistics . |
| 14 | If they were not lying securely in their graves , awaiting the Day of Judgement , what might they not be up to in the long hours of darkness , as the boards creaked and the wind howled on Wuthering Heights ? |
| 15 | It will reveal the limitations to the interpretation a player can give , say , Bartok 's ‘ Mikrokosmos ’ without the long hours of practice and thought which are currently necessary for the mastery of both the piano and the music itself . |
| 16 | Construction tends to plough on regardless of the weather , but the long hours of daylight are a big plus and sunshine is a decided improvement over icy winds . |
| 17 | Music , for both of us , is a part of life we treasure , and Michael has found his records and tapes a constant source of happiness during the long hours of inactivity forced upon him . |
| 18 | And in Gascoigne 's absence he played the fool to lighten the mood during the long hours of inactivity that footballers must put up with . |
| 19 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |
| 20 | There , as a mid-wife explains , he is standing on his head , whiling away the long hours of labour with yoga practice . |
| 21 | In the frozen hours of dawn it all appeared rather benign , but on our return , some five weeks later , we were forced to run a sobering gauntlet . |
| 22 | Thus he helped to pass the tedious hours of air travel during a world tour in 1946 by reading Bagehot 's The English Constitution . |
| 23 | Over the top , I hear you say , and so it is — splendidly over the top and a moment that will remind you , adrift in the endless hours of pseudo-realism , that the screen does after all have transformative powers . |
| 24 | Well the answer lies in the twelve hours of negotiation that took place yesterday . |
| 25 | The seventeen hours of film took Winner two months to edit down to fifteen minutes . |
| 26 | Once in the uneasy hours of dark , I heard my father singing to himself . |
| 27 | There is a copy here if Members want to browse through it in the small hours of morning . |
| 28 | I remember the brief darkness at midnight when the arc lamps lit the decks ; the interminable hours of daylight ; the unceasing work with men too tired to talk ; the hurried meals ; the luxury of sleep when we were moving from one fishing ground to another . |
| 29 | The public now has a better chance of listening to treasures such as the massive 40-cm 78-rpm discs cut during the Nuremburg Trials , or the 40 hours of tape recorded during the 0z trial . |
| 30 | Early successes in the treatment of this disorder consisted of exposing patients to bright light in the morning , so mimicking the longer hours of daylight associated with summer . |