Example sentences of "three and [art] [det] hours " in BNC.

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1 In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’
2 EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval .
3 He points to the fact that the Atlantic can now be crossed in three and a half hours as indisputable evidence that the pace has hotted up , but in his view , the next generation will assimilate such changes .
4 Flying time is three and a half hours and there is no time change .
5 That was less than three and a half hours ago , but it might have been years .
6 There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters .
7 This is unsettling , and makes me realise that for those three and a half hours I have been the still and passive object of her intuition as well as her technical skill .
8 Jo refused to discuss the Oscars ; the whole idea was too exciting to bear serious thought , and besides she knew something about the events of the next three and a half hours that her mother did not , and would not until her name was called .
9 There was another three and a half hours to go .
10 After three and a half hours the stragglers were still coming through .
11 His speech lasted three and a half hours ; most of it he read quickly in an even tone .
12 In all its major value for money three and a half hours and 50 tracks , ‘ …
13 On 21 February 1934 , for example , the House of Commons spent three and a half hours considering John Banfield 's motion for state pensions at age 60 ‘ sufficient in amount to encourage the retirement from industry ’ of older workers .
14 Put in a fireproof dish eight carrots cut in round pieces , about half an inch thick , half a dozen small onions , parsley , salt and pepper and a rasher of bacon cut in small pieces , add a tablespoon of water , cover the dish and cook on a slow fire for about three and a half hours .
15 Three and a half hours for a three-pound piece of veal — and on top of the stove too — is an awful long time .
16 BARB 's research shows that the average individual watches around three and a half hours of television per day ( and has done so for at least the last 10 years ) , just over half of this being ITV .
17 So without working it out , but using the graph now , how far would he be after three and a half hours ?
18 Lumbar puncture , performed three and a half hours after admission , showed turbid cerebrospinal fluid containing 1500 white cells/µl ( 100% polymorphs ) , protein 5.7 g/l ( normal 0.15–0.45 g/l ) , and glucose 1.2 mmol/l .
19 How far in erm three and a half hours ?
20 One woman walked for an hour through the snow to catch the bus to Skipton , waited for three and a half hours to meet Hannah , and still went home smiling .
21 She picked up the phone and dialled Heathrow , asked for Flight Information , was told that the flight from New York had arrived on time some three and a half hours ago .
22 three and a half hours of work .
23 Mark came in with a very respectable time of three and a half hours in his first marathon .
24 Two rounds of measurements were made , three and a half hours apart .
25 We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea , an excellent shopping centre .
26 Experienced planners could do this job in three or four hours — we had to arrange four meetings each lasting three and a half hours and they still only just got it done .
27 The weather bureau was predicting light rain and snow flurries and the cirrus was thickening , but over San Antonio , Texas , three and a half hours later , the night was crystal clear .
28 Three and a half hours after noon , he was close enough to the Earn to hear the shouting and deduce that the army landed that morning at Levenmouth had completed its march northwards through Fife and even its struggle , harassed by Tuathal , through the defile of Glen Farg , and was now here , on one side or the other of the Earn crossing .
29 A continuous recording of both sodium concentration ( mV ) and pH was obtained ( at intervals of two seconds ) for up to three and a half hours ( median value=two hours 27 minutes , range from 56 minutes to 3 hours 32 minutes ) .
30 She suffers from deterioration of the spine , but her family claims she was left sitting on a bed without any back support for three and a half hours .
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