Example sentences of "a [adj] hours a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
2 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
3 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
4 | AFTER THE MONTHS of location shooting in Cornwall , and the completion of the interiors of Straw Dogs at Twickenham Studios in London in March 1971 , Dustin returned to his New York home , determined to spend as much time as possible with his family , only going down to his production office , SweetWall Productions , on West 56th Street , for a few hours a day . |
5 | I daresay if we get someone sensible to look after them a few hours a day , they wo n't suffer too much . |
6 | Within a few hours a scum appears on top of the wort and this rapidly builds up into a great yellowy-brown crust as the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide . |
7 | Perhaps it will be both rather more demanding and more flexible than some , asking for a few hours a year but with more emphasis on personal planning . |
8 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
9 | The Prince 's Youth Business Trust , which gives grants and loans to disadvantaged young people hoping to start their own businesses , is looking for volunteer business advisers prepared to give up a few hours a month to help the youngsters get their projects off the ground . |
10 | Could you spare a few hours a month to be a secretary or chairman of a group , a Panda keeper , or trading officer ? |
11 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
12 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
13 | Can anyone recommend somebody who would like a few hours a week domestic cleaning ( and maybe occasional catering work ? ) |
14 | With an air of great condescension he told me that he was ‘ prepared to give me a try-out ’ for a few hours a week . |
15 | Even if you only work for a few hours a week , take out professional indemnity insurance . |
16 | But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated . |
17 | Clare asked Carolyn , casually , if she was interested in taking on a few hours a week . |
18 | Children spend some five and a half hours a day in a classroom for 40 weeks a year . |
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 | That means that two-thirds of the population can be expected to sleep between six and a half and eight and a half hours a night , about 16 per cent regularly sleep over eight and a half hours , and another 16 per cent sleep under six and a half hours . |
21 | Only three housewives had paid domestic help at the time of the interview : two for six hours a week and one for five and a half hours a fortnight . |
22 | But when I started it was fifty-two and a half hours a week yes . |
23 | I worked for a month then I went to the dyers and cleaners and I came home to Ipswich in the , on the Easter time and I started work as a turnboy on the dredger at Ipswich at thirty five shillings a week for fi sixty six and a half hours a week , starting from Monday morning at six o'clock to six o'clock Monday night . |
24 | has got nothing to do with it but she 's working an extra two and a half hours a week and getting half an hour off , you know I mean you , in all |
25 | For six years he had remained current by flying a dozen hours a year , mainly on Cessna 150s ; then between 1986 and 1989 he flew only six hours , with his last recorded solo flight in August 1987 and last dual in August 1989 . |
26 | Junior doctors across the region are to ballot on industrial action in protest at working up to a hundred hours a week . |
27 | He 'd had to work well over a hundred hours a week for weeks on end . |