Example sentences of "hours ' [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the two sub-units of the British contingent manning the BZ ( Buffer Zone ) has sent in a sitrep detailing the previous twenty-four hours ' activity in the BZ . |
| 2 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 3 | He 'd managed to grab a couple of hours ' sleep in the cell since they 'd brought him in , but it was scarcely enough to refresh him . |
| 4 | As an example Russell and Macmillan ( 1952 ) quote the fact that with a westerly gale of twelve hours ' duration in the Atlantic the size of the waves reaching Cornwall would be limited by the time and not by the fetch , i.e. the distance between Cornwall and America . |
| 5 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |