Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | If two constables spent ten hours each investigating the false report before discovering the truth then the total hours wasted would be twenty . |
| 2 | After a more detailed and refined analysis of their results , Brown and Levin concluded as follows : ‘ The evidence clearly suggests , therefore , that the aggregate effect of tax on overtime is small ; it may perhaps add about 1% to the total hours worked , since , on balance , tax has made people work more rather than less overtime . ’ |
| 3 | The surveyor can easily assess the relationship between earnings on measured work and daywork , in order to verify the daywork hours , provided he is aware of the total hours worked each week . |
| 4 | The total hours spent on the carriage so far are 226 hours 30 minutes . |
| 5 | Any deviations from the normal hours worked are clearly highlighted in automatic exception reports . |
| 6 | He returned for work at the normal hour without it . ’ |
| 7 | I was thinking of all the work I needed to do on Masquerade ; all the painstaking hours of sawing and planing and caulking and rigging . |
| 8 | Every Sunday morning when his wife woke him he soundly ( if silently ) cursed his adopted religion ; but the hell of getting up when all sensible creatures were lost in lovely sleep , was more than compensated for by the feeling of well-being after Mass , which made him beam and glow like an advertisement for salts — ‘ It 's Inner Cleanliness that counts ! ’ — ; and look forward with relish to eggs and bacon with a righteous sense of having earned them , and the lazy hours to follow . |
| 9 | If there is no time to relish and enjoy the uncluttered hour , are you perhaps too busy ? |
| 10 | Mr Stokoe , who was at Hillsborough to witness one of the finest hours in the declining club 's recent history , used his position as a television analyst to canvas on behalf of Mr Crosby 's permanent promotion to the manager 's chair . |
| 11 | Within this residue , which now totals about 40 hours out of the 168 hours in a week , the detailed choice of leisure depends on the availability of three further resources , money , space and facilities , and also of course personal preference as shown in Figure 7.1 . |
| 12 | The Odd Hour Cinema , Nottingham , the 1950s . |
| 13 | At thirty-two , he was young enough not to look completely haggard , even after thirty-six hours with only the odd hour 's sleep , but his dark hair was plastered to his head and the brown eyes were sunk back in his head and reddened with smoke and exhaustion . |
| 14 | He managed to spend the odd hour alone with Grace , who told him she had fallen for a Welsh corporal who had stood on a land-mine and ended up blind in one eye . |
| 15 | Walking towards the station , having promised to bring back with her all sorts of expensive food items Tina had requested from Selfridges ' Food Hall , Cecilia thought how much she liked living on her own and that at seventy-six she was too old to have Jasper and Bienvida running around her , fond of them as she was , not to mention Tina 's boyfriends and the odd hours she kept and her lying in bed till noon . |
| 16 | ‘ We used to call it the Bitching Hour . |
| 17 | It asks how service personnel use their position to help the customer ; how the eight hours of their day are spent . |
| 18 | The eight hours ' duty was the property of Watch Committee and Chief Constable . |
| 19 | If you exclude the eight hours on average spent in bed each night , then you could be spending around 65 per cent of your entire waking life in one form of sedentary position or another . |
| 20 | Then he put through a bill to suspend for five years the Seven Hours Act , which had restricted maximum daily hours for the coal industry since 1919 , following the Eight Hours Act of 1908 . |
| 21 | new liners and that in the eight hours we were on shift . |
| 22 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 23 | Erm and so therefore most people were busily engaged all of the eight hour day . |
| 24 | After calling for a return to work they organised a series of campaigns , about censorship , the campaign for the eight hour working day . |
| 25 | On day five you depart by road for the three-and-a-half hour journey to the lively resort of Pattaya at the Gulf of Siam . |
| 26 | His simple , expensive tunic hung straight , without the least sign of a crease or a sweat stain , despite the heat of the day and the advanced hour of morning . |
| 27 | Yet Cottle did not have the extensive hours of study available to the modern undergraduate . |
| 28 | Set all alarm clocks in the house to ensure you get up at the right hour , or if you 're in a guest house , ask for a breakfast call , nice and early . |
| 29 | He does n't actually use the words but his philosophy is clearly that the New Zealand sojourn may have been the darkest hour but that the darkest hours comes before the dawning of a new day . |
| 30 | We have shown our greatness as a people in the darkest hour of adversity . |