Example sentences of "[art] hour a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman I spoke to on the phone realised this immediately and within the hour a man in a boiler suit arrived . |
| 2 | Rachel had imagined that the accident would put paid to Family Day and that the other activities , including the firework display , would be cancelled , but within the hour a message came through from the hospital from Sir Anthony to say that , because miraculously there had been no fatalities , with even the pilot surviving his injuries , it was his express wish that the Family Day celebration should continue . |
| 3 | Some classes gave as little as half an hour a week to science and , on average , it took only 5 per cent of the timetable . |
| 4 | Courtfield was the happy family home of our founder , Cardinal Herbert Vaughan , whose mother , Eliza , spent an hour a day praying for religious vocations for her thirteen children . |
| 5 | Scientists at Reading University have made a plant-stroking machine which brushes polythene strips over test plant leaves for an hour a day . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Doctor Sparrow recommends that she be allowed to sit out of bed , in a chair , for an hour a day , during the summer months . |
| 7 | Mr Bruce Napier , a chartered clinical psychologist once in charge of the society 's disciplinary procedures , said : ‘ If you go to see a therapist for an hour a week to talk about your most intimate feelings , it is understandable you may develop more powerful feelings for him than you would for your bank manager or solicitor . ’ |
| 8 | The new channel will be obliged , at the start , to offer only half an hour a day of news and only an hour a week of current affairs . |
| 9 | The new channel will be obliged , at the start , to offer only half an hour a day of news and only an hour a week of current affairs . |
| 10 | A special foot-pump used twelve hours a day saved the situation , and Rose subsequently had to use the pump for at least an hour a day to prevent a recurrence of the problem . |
| 11 | Most people got some informal care , and three-quarters had someone who spent on average at least an hour a day doing things with them or on their behalf . |
| 12 | I used to spend an hour a day on him . ’ |
| 13 | The time ranged from half an hour a day to 13 hours a day , depending on whether devolution was viewed as a separate activity concerned only with finance or whether it was seen as being curriculum driven and/or inseparable from all the activities performed by a head in a working day . |
| 14 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 15 | After about half an hour a girl came out of the gate , her tartan shawl held round her with rough , reddened hands . |
| 16 | Baron Frankenstein stands in his laboratory quaking with anticipation ; in half an hour a lightning bolt will streak from the skies bringing life to the thing that lies on the slab . |
| 17 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 18 | Washing up after every meal can mean you spend around an hour a day sunk in the sink . |
| 19 | You could get to quite like these characters if all you got was half an hour a week . |
| 20 | In half an hour a dozen or so cars would drive into the inner courtyard and the morning shift would take over . |
| 21 | She was talking now as if the child were not present , but the child was present , and she spoke up : ‘ An hour a month ? |
| 22 | The bars here are unique in that unlike the rest of ‘ puritan ’ Germany , they only close for an hour a day to let the cleaners in ( many bars even pour drink through a loophole by cleaning half the bar at a time — prost ! ) |
| 23 | A representative assessment is that given by the library manager : I would say that one of the biggest advantages was the fact that senior management … from the Head down , from the very word go , were after making it a success … one thing we have got is a greater awareness from a greater number of staff , because they come in here to supervise and help [ and ] get involved … but I think the biggest advantage has been the fact that time devoted to … library skills for all the first year … [ has ] been extended to an hour a week … |
| 24 | Erm , George and I had that class shared between us , he took them for an hour a week and I did and i if there is a class that any of us had ever taken that would be unlikely to be able to write something meaningful of this kind |
| 25 | Within half an hour a crowd of pilgrims had gathered outside the hotel . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ An hour a day , ’ Nicholson said , leading them across the yard . |
| 28 | often regardless of the ground to be covered , has for decades been the equivalent of an hour a day . |
| 29 | She allowed herself to read for no more than half an hour a day . |
| 30 | Exercises that accomplish this are swimming , short-term jogging ( about half an hour a day ) and skipping . |