Example sentences of "one and [art] [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | This fire officer , however , refused to allow the use of a sizeable proportion of the props , around which the entire show was structured ; and , although the Prince and Princess of Wales were arriving in one and a half hours ' time along with five Cabinet ministers , and the cast would have no time to rehearse without the props they relied upon , he was not to be budged . |
| 2 | I always leave a minimum of one and a half hours so that if I have a blow-out or breakdown or some other unforeseen emergency , I still have time to take care of it and catch the plane . |
| 3 | It lasted only one and a half hours but it satisfied body and soul . |
| 4 | It took us One and a half hours to clean up , but my early start gave us plenty of time . |
| 5 | An average of one and a half hours was spent with most families . |
| 6 | It was one and a half hours later before they reached him , caught up in all the plants , still shouting ‘ What have I done ? |
| 7 | You have one and a half hours to get here . |
| 8 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 9 | An ‘ activity ’ might last any length of time from one and a half hours to ( say ) a sustained activity lasting , over a period , as much as ten hours . |
| 10 | All to be achieved within one and a half hours . |
| 11 | The show is one and a half hours of entertainment for children of all ages . |
| 12 | Roll them in salt and bake for one and a half hours ( or until they ‘ give ’ when pressed ) in a moderately hot oven ( 190 ° , 375 ° F , Gas Mark 5 ) . |
| 13 | The large steam chamber has a one litre capacity , allowing up to one and a half hours of continuous ironing with three times more steam per minute than a conventional iron . |
| 14 | Driving-time : one and a half hours the first time , two hours the second . |
| 15 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |
| 16 | In January 1924 , when the house was nearing completion , she went twice in four days , first with her son ‘ Georgie ’ , the Duke of Kent , when they spent one and a half hours ‘ going over the beautiful miniature things ’ , as she records in her diary , and later with a friend when she ‘ arranged some of the rooms ’ . |
| 17 | East Shropshire Group raised £110 in one and a half hours selling products through the town 's local Amnesty shop . |
| 18 | After school , I had to get practise and it took about one and a half hours to get there . |
| 19 | The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk . |
| 20 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 21 | Each audiotaped session lasted between one to one and a half hours . |
| 22 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |
| 23 | Situated about one and a half hours from Avignon by car on the Route Nationale to Carpentras . |
| 24 | Now discussion is limited normally to one and a half hours and even that possibility disappears if the Commons has other urgent business that requires a sitting to be extended beyond the normal closure at 10 p.m . |
| 25 | Debate is limited to one and a half hours . |
| 26 | To produce the single-strand template DNA , time used in each method was : a ) at least one and a half hours ; b ) at least two hours ; c ) only half an hour . |
| 27 | Mr. Taylor : As many of the laws that used to be made in the House of Commons are now made by the Council of Ministers , and as we can discuss its decisions for only one and a half hours after 10 o'clock at night , does the Lord President agree that this makes nonsense of democracy and deprives the public of the knowledge of what is going on ? |
| 28 | ( 2 ) While this section applies to any premises , the effect shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) below , the permitted hours in those premises in the afternoon shall be increased by the addition of one and a half hours at the end thereof . |
| 29 | Once the section has been applied to premises the afternoon permitted hours are extended by one and a half hours for the sale and supply of liquor for the purposes specified in subs . |
| 30 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that a significant number of my right hon. and hon. Friends are bitterly disappointed that during today 's Consolidated Fund Bill debate only one and a half hours have been allocated to discussing pension funds ? |