Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hours " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It asks how service personnel use their position to help the customer ; how the eight hours of their day are spent . |
| 12 | The eight hours ' duty was the property of Watch Committee and Chief Constable . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | new liners and that in the eight hours we were on shift . |
| 16 | Yet Cottle did not have the extensive hours of study available to the modern undergraduate . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In the darkest hours of his captivity Serfaty considered suicide . |
| 19 | Moreover , Esquire 's February launch coincided with the darkest hours of the Gulf War . |
| 20 | Some time in the darkest hours of the night she had been forced to admit to herself that she was deeply attracted to David Markham , just as she now knew he was to her , but recognising that did n't alter the fact that the situation was impossible . |
| 21 | None of us had slept in the intervening hours . |
| 22 | Because the weather was raw and foggy she spent most of the intervening hours in a nearby house , which had been commandeered by the army for the use of resident and non-resident FANY drivers . |
| 23 | I passed the intervening hours in growing apprehension ; morning parade , the march through the darkness to breakfast . |
| 24 | They usually begin with pictures of the occupations of the different months , followed by passages from the Gospels and the liturgical hours from Matins ( and Lauds ) to Vespers and Compline , and completed by miniatures of the life of the Virgin . |
| 25 | The same effect is achieved in the continual cycle of meditations on the Passion in the liturgical Hours of the Cross ; they remind man not just of death conquered by death once in the historical events of the Passion , but of a continual process to last until the end of time . |
| 26 | Part-time workers who work only a very few hours do not benefit from many of the forms of employment protection introduced by legislation over the last decade or so , although those part-time workers who work at least half the usual hours are covered on some items . |
| 27 | 16–11- That he would contribute £50 and proposed that services should be held at Keills and Ballygrant alternately at the usual hours of public worship on the Sabbath . |
| 28 | They 're going to pay their £15 , go to loads of raves , get in OK , get the 12 hours ’ worth of dance music they 've paid for , and they 'll enjoy it . |
| 29 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 30 | The 12 hours that shook us all |