Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [num] hours [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A typical simplified bonus calculation would , therefore , be as follows : Total hours worked 40 Target hours for completed operations 50 Actual hours booked 35 Hours saved 15 % bonus payable ( 90% ) 13½ Hours paid 53½ |
| 2 | The five finalists had three hours to produce their creations for a jury of 12 gastronomic chroniclers ( as French food-writers entitle themselves ) and ‘ mères ’ . |
| 3 | Vets spent 2 hours operating to reset the wing . |
| 4 | The officers spent two hours telling her of the concern expressed by police and welfare authorities in England about the way Gemma had been left . |
| 5 | The tables took three hours to set . |
| 6 | Firefighters spent three hours tackling the blaze , which spread through the roof and into an adjoining property in Pensby Road . |
| 7 | Surgeons spent four hours sewing the leg back together at Wycombe General Hospital , Bucks . |
| 8 | Six demonstrators spent two hours chained to the fence at the R-A-F Aston Down Airfield near Stroud . |
| 9 | The two men spent two hours trapped in their Ford Sierra on the M-40 at Tetsworth . |
| 10 | Police spent three hours persuading her to leave the car before taking her for counselling at a police station . |
| 11 | Police took two hours to find the wreckage and the bodies of the couple . |
| 12 | Six men take nine hours to do it . |
| 13 | The area had effectively been abandoned by the authorities , a fact which became clear during the riot itself , when police waited five hours to enter the estate and put down the disturbances . |
| 14 | Firemen spent 24 hours keeping under control a fire in a barn which contained 80 tonnes of straw . |
| 15 | MPs spent two hours discussing the make-up of a committee to draw up a new system of presidential power and cabinet veto , and it was significant that the 12 names mentioned for the committee included several Christian deputies , but only one Maronite . |