Example sentences of "[num] hour at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene , damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started . |
| 2 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 3 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 4 | Former King Michael , who had tried to re-enter Romania on Dec. 25 , 1990 , only to be expelled after 12 hours at the airport , was given leave on Jan. 6 to have his Romanian citizenship restored . |
| 5 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 6 | If there is a delay of over 2 hours at the start of your journey from the U.K. we will do our best to provide you with light refreshments . |
| 7 | The engine was recorded as having a total time of 302.30 hours at the time of the accident . |
| 8 | Steven Osbourne , 30 , used three lines nearly every day for six months — sometimes for 22 hours at a time — to ring the Wheel of Fortune . |
| 9 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 10 | What , Europe wondered , were they looking for on their whirlwind tour which allowed them an average of twenty-eight hours at every city they investigated ? |
| 11 | Now you 're not gon na wan na be six hours at a hospital bedside are you ? |
| 12 | He said , and I agree , if she does n't have the transplant within forty-eight hours at the outside , it could be too late . ’ |
| 13 | Baskets for carrying your tackle box , reels , bait , flasks , sandwiches , etc. , and for sitting on , are , I suppose , fine if you fish for only two or three hours at a stretch . |
| 14 | The miller 's day was dictated by the movements of the tides because his source of power would only be available for short periods of two or three hours at a time . |
| 15 | Her interests are almost all active ones ; and to be with someone whose idea of a holiday is to sit stock still for three hours at a time , with a small box of watercolours and a sketch pad and ‘ watch ’ things , was beyond her . |
| 16 | Lovely , you could listen to that three hours at a time . |
| 17 | Three hundred of them queued for up to three hours at the weekend to watch all six of the Star Trek films , culminating with the latest , the Undiscovered Country . |
| 18 | He 's done his best to ruin us these three hours at the ale-house in Mountsorrel , I 'll be bound . |
| 19 | The pallets were under gas for 12–18 hours at a time , and a careful system of rotating the stock was implemented . |
| 20 | I realise that , if I am accepted , once I have completed my degree I may often have to work for over 80 hours at a stretch during a weekend on call . |
| 21 | The BT men at Kidlington , Oxford , left the phone off the hook for 36 hours at a time . |
| 22 | His dealing with the witnesses now had a different purpose , and he was employed to sift their informations as they related to the alleged treason of Shaftesbury , sitting with Richard Graham , the government solicitor , ‘ ten hours at a time without moving ’ . |
| 23 | An ex-Army sergeant from Bedale , he told last year of using the conversation lines for up to ten hours at a time . |
| 24 | Most seven year olds sleep for about ten hours at a stretch . |
| 25 | The heat inside the oven and preparation containers is almost unbearable , and yet the bakers survive shifts of twelve hours at a time . |
| 26 | Night fishing entails about twelve hours at the water to fish the best times . |
| 27 | The pitmen remain underground for eight or nine hours at a time and invariably take food down with them into the pits and eat it with unwashed hands and without a knife and fork . |
| 28 | From early June to mid September these afternoon winds regularly reach force 3 and 4 , sometimes more , blowing for four or five hours at a time . |
| 29 | used to publish what areas were going to have power cuts , d' ya remember ? , you were in Bristol at the time , er Stuart was the same , they used to publish what area would be cut off and for what time and for how long and you knew you would get cut off , sort of ten o'clock in the morning till three in the afternoon , usu , four or five hours at a time was n't it ? |
| 30 | Paul , 27 , from Hanworth , Middlesex , spent a blank five hours at the water and had just changed swims when the pike took a float fished trout on 12 lb line with size 8 barbless trebles . |