Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 31 | Up to five inches fell in the 12 hours to 10am . |
| 32 | Before the seventy-two hours are up , they can go back to the court and apply for an extension of the warrant of further detention by up to another thirty-six hours . |
| 33 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 34 | Then a European Commission report showed that British workers do the LONGEST hours in Europe — for FIFTH RATE pay . |
| 35 | And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome . |
| 36 | Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children . |
| 37 | BIG strides in reducing junior doctors ' working hours have been announced by health minister Dr Brian Mawhinney , who said : ‘ Posts with the longest hours those contracted for an average of more than 83 hours a week fell by more than 2,000 to 3,234 , in the last six months . ’ |
| 38 | Where they 're offering the free hours counselling and er and the two days yeah you know consultancy |
| 39 | The SPO on Dec. 9 alleged widespread irregularities , including the opening of polling stations outside the proper hours , doctoring of electoral lists , and continued canvassing by SPS activists after the official end of the campaign . |
| 40 | The proper hours . |
| 41 | The extended hours of eligibility and the greater rewards for general practitioners who make their own night visits readily explain these changes in activity . |
| 42 | So they packed up some pears and pineapples — set off well before the light hours |
| 43 | Well aware that it was a game to Richard — a pretence with which to pass the empty hours — and that it was to Anne , rather than Joan , he was in this instance referring , such comments never failed to annoy Edward — as Richard was well aware . |
| 44 | She simply was n't destined to get any rest , so she might as well do something useful with the empty hours . |
| 45 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 46 | The requirement will be smaller if the only decision is assigning each student to a set ( variously called a group , laboratory class , split , etc. ) for which the timetabled hours and rooms are already determined , and for which the teacher will be ( or be provided by ) the module leader . |
| 47 | Our sense of achievement lasted the few hours until we collected the kids . |
| 48 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 49 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 50 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 51 | Choosing this date also allows Balboa and his company a little breathing space : they can spend two full days marching from the unpleasantness in Quareca to the summits of the coastal range — rather more reasonable a period than the few hours that elapse if we believe the earlier date . |
| 52 | Duncan had wanted to wait the few hours it would take to fix the Citation and run checks on it , but Myeloski was anxious to get to Tobolsk . |
| 53 | Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house . |
| 54 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 55 | For the few hours , the day or few days ' duration of the " event " , their labour force at the location in question increases many times in size . |
| 56 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |
| 57 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 58 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 59 | ( 193 ) In Bonn , the few hours of talk and the banquets with West German leaders were made to produce , by all accounts , the information he needed . |
| 60 | Even the few hours she put in gave her life some purpose . |