Example sentences of "[num] hour [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two-year-old Lady would not be coaxed away from Jimmy Seymour 's van , so he had to keep the engine ticking over with the heaters full-on for eight hours while the bitch gave birth to eight healthy pups . |
| 2 | Using current methods these tests can take around eight hours and the diagnosis is not definitive . |
| 3 | To charges that this is too much of a good thing , the BBC say they have always given the World Championship around 70 hours and the audience figures remain high . |
| 4 | The cheese will generally be of the right consistency in 12 hours if the cream is thoroughly good and the weather not too warm . " |
| 5 | Marion Balcombe , ENB director of primary health care , said that in England HVs and DNs will have to complete an open learning package of 10 to 12 hours and a lecture course of at least 15 hours . |
| 6 | The footprint at site 1 is no longer evident 60 minutes after mixing , whereas that at sites 2-4 requires 2 hours before the pattern returns to that of the control . |
| 7 | 2 hours before the show starts , the Fire Brigade and 2 besuited men from the local authority are in grim conference over the safety of some fireworks in the production . |
| 8 | I finally left the area at 11.50pm , nearly 2 hours after the match ended . |
| 9 | By the weekend , around 50 flights will have been made at the rate of one every 2 hours and the deployment will be complete . |
| 10 | It was now over forty hours since the money had been handed over , but there had been no word of Ruggiero Miletti 's release . |
| 11 | It denied that it represented a danger to the public , insisting that it would have to pressed to the skin for 30 hours before the dose limit was reached . |
| 12 | The total area of erosions at three hours and six hours after the administration was 12.6 ( 3.5 ) mm and 23.2 ( 3.2 ) mm respectively ( fig 1 ) . |
| 13 | The activity of glutathione peroxidase at six hours after the administration was significantly reduced ( p<0.05 ) to195.6 ( 15.6 ) mU/mg protein ( fig 4 ) . |
| 14 | Six hours after the gassing operation began , around midday , the Mount Carmel centre burst into flames in three different places . |
| 15 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 16 | The reason was that at midnight , five-and-a-half hours after the evening 's entertainment was due to begin , further education , tertiary and sixth form colleges left county council control . |
| 17 | This went on for three hours while the rest of us were preparing for the move to Canjuers . |
| 18 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours while the gang made their getaway . |
| 19 | In a separate incident in Glengormley , houses were evacuated for over three hours after a suspect car was abandoned at Willowtree Park shortly after 1am yesterday . |
| 20 | Wayne Cummings , 32 , was plucked unconscious from the water by the crew of an RAF helicopter more than three hours after the craft capsized off Llantwit Major , South Glamorgan . |
| 21 | The arrest was made eighty miles away , and three hours after the body was discovered . |
| 22 | The arrest was made eighty miles away , and three hours after the body was discovered . |
| 23 | The arrest was made eighty miles away , and three hours after the body was discovered . |
| 24 | The arrest was made eighty miles away , and three hours after the body was discovered . |
| 25 | She had sat up until late learning the brief she had been sent , then snatched three hours before the call came . |
| 26 | The native of Japan arrives at the station two or three hours before the train is due . |
| 27 | The needle is then withdrawn and the patient goes back to bed if he is an in-patient , or rests for two or three hours if an out-patient , before returning home to rest there . |
| 28 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 29 | Yesterday , with two interest rates announced in three hours and a devaluation on the way , there was only one message for sterling — sell , sell , sell . |
| 30 | The journey from Montrose to Laurencekirk , ten and a half miles , takes three hours and a quarter on foot , on the undulating and awkward A937 . |