Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [adj] hours [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's actually on for two hours in the evening . |
| 2 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 3 | Lice can be cleared best with special lotions which evaporate on contact with the scalp and should be left on for 12 hours before shampooing away . |
| 4 | ‘ We were woken at 10.30pm and told to put our kit on for three hours of night-time navigation exercises , ’ says Peter . |
| 5 | mm , mm in any event members of the jury I , I forgot to mention to you earlier , er , thank you Mr you probably feel a wisdom of this having done several days of this case , two and a half hours is just about as long as anybody can be expected to sit and listen to evidence and er , what I was going to do , and I hope it does n't inconvenience anybody , I was going , instead of going on for three hours till one o'clock , I was gon na break off about half past twelve to about half past one , to break up the day as you know , I hope that 's alright , so what we 'll do we 'll go on now and , and I 'm sure , I think it 's doubtful if you would have got to that point by half past twelve , and then you and Lord sort it out and your learned duties as much as you can in the adjournment and then tell me afterwards what the brochure position is , I 'm sure you 've no objection to disclosing any brochures that you 've got that erm , or can get er which relate to that point |
| 6 | I also think that Mrs somewhat underestimated the formal hours required , I have noted from the er , the B M A documents setting out the charges to be expected to be levied by agencies in relation to nurses that extra hours will be charged per hour and I can foresee that if an agency contracts to provide ten hours formal care that er , it might be that with a number of carers they would find themselves very , very frequently putting in for extra hours of care . |
| 7 | And then you just put the numbers in for different hours into the equation into the formula that tells you how far he 's gone , work it out . |
| 8 | Benefits of the system include a shortening of the production line by 400 metres and a saving in manufacturing time of 24% ( down to 26 hours for Safrane , as opposed to 34 hours for the Renault 25 ) . |
| 9 | Above all , we must move junior doctors on to a shift system so that they do not work more than 60 hours , coming down to 56 hours in the most intensive posts . |
| 10 | The early coaches went via Lewes but a new turnpike through Cuckfield in the later 1770s speeded up the journey considerably and the trip was down to six hours by 1820 . |
| 11 | Shifts split up the family so that men would be coming in at all hours of the day , waiting for the bath-tin and the water and a woman to wash their backs . |
| 12 | Then you turned them over for twelve hours to the right , and twelve hours to the left , and up they go ! |
| 13 | Worst hit were the Devon seaside towns of Sidmouth and Exmouth , which were cut off for several hours on Wednesday . |
| 14 | The centre of Milton Keynes was sealed off for several hours after a coded telephone message warned of a bomb in the town 's main shopping centre . |
| 15 | Yesterday 's meeting resumed talks broken off after eight hours in Dublin last month . |
| 16 | It was called off within twenty-four hours after extensive rioting at a number of men–s prisons . |
| 17 | The following day we could knock it off in few hours before returning to base . |
| 18 | GIRDING up for six hours with the Mahabharata is a long training . |
| 19 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |
| 20 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |
| 21 | Ten people were picked up after four hours in the water , and the eleventh after five hours . |
| 22 | The Cabinet meeting broke up after two-and-a-half hours with no sign of a solution to the public spending dilemma . |
| 23 | At times like these , while I am watching a midnight sunset or sunrise , I shed a tear for those poor campers putting up with long hours of dark in the Himalayas or the like . |
| 24 | The average daily temperature is around 86 degrees Farenheit in November reducing to 76 degrees Farenheit in December with up to nine hours of sunshine per day . |
| 25 | There are two methods of emergency contraception — a pill that can be used up to 72 hours after intercourse and an IUD method that may be fitted within five days . |
| 26 | Emergency contraception ( sometimes called ‘ the morning after pill ’ ) may protect you against pregnancy if you have had sexual intercourse without contraception or if you think that the method you have used may not have worked — but it should never be used up to 72 hours after intercourse and an IUD method that may be fitted within five days . |
| 27 | These post-coital hormonal contraceptives can be taken up to 72 hours after intercourse . |
| 28 | The increase in bursting seemed to continue for up to twelve hours after training . |
| 29 | It is certainly a state of the art unit , offering an impressive 36 functions which range from three altitude settings , to an internal memory capable of storing up to eight hours of diving profiles , and if that 's not enough , you can interface it with a personal computer and relive your dive profiles in your own home . |
| 30 | It 's long-play feature enables you to record up to eight hours of matches on one tape — twice as long as usual ! |