Example sentences of "[pers pn] [num] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give me eight hours to get ready and you 're on . ’ |
| 2 | Er reimbursement for expenses so petrol , postages that sort of thing , but the time of running around you ca n't get back , which is one of the factors that back to the old Which magazine they never deal with this say yes you can deal with it and I read some person that says it only took me forty hours , yes forty hours at legal rates , well that would be a big bill . |
| 3 | ‘ If a sport offered me 12 hours free , I would have to say I have nowhere to put it , ’ Bromley admits . |
| 4 | Impulsively — and straight from the heart — I said , ‘ Give me forty-eight hours , Alec . |
| 5 | Will you give me forty-eight hours ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ If you are really dropping people anywhere along that coast I would n't give them forty-eight hours before they are signing a statement for the public prosecutor . |
| 7 | It took them three hours to bring it under control . |
| 8 | So but I think with this I mean this homework , that 's the only thing I do n't believe in because they 've got ta revise it which is brilliant , I mean , at the moment but they also give them three hours homework a night ! |
| 9 | For £60 , Melanie Wein and her mother Natalie offers you six hours of tuition in eyelid flutters , pouting lips , slick chat-up lines and how to make yourself wanted . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's never taken you six hours to get from Rosslare to here ! ’ he exclaimed in disbelief . |
| 11 | whether it 's the afternoon or an evening or weekend it 's still the same price , but the , the mental patient actually employs you , you 're not employed by the hospital , but they can only give you ten hours a week which is five session so that 's only sort of twenty seven quid a week so you 're |
| 12 | Take you two hours anyway . |
| 13 | I 'll give you 24 hours to get off my turf or I 'll kill you . ’ |
| 14 | If you would like to know more about the people and processes that keep water running for you 24 hours a day , why not send off now for the comprehensive free brochure below . |
| 15 | And it takes them twelve hours to do this job . |
| 16 | It took him eight hours of careful , painstaking work to reach the summit . |
| 17 | A sixth-year pupil at Glasgow 's Kelvinside Academy , he takes to the air this summer after winning a Royal Air Force flying scholarship , which will give him 30 hours at the controls of a light aircraft and see him going solo during his course . |
| 18 | Give him thirty-six hours then apply pressure . ’ |
| 19 | It took him 100 hours but he achieved a ratio of about 1000:1 . |
| 20 | It took him six hours to make a long , thin rope , but he had lost all sense of time . |
| 21 | I would n't have omitted him three hours before , but now it seemed I must face up to the situation as it was without him . |
| 22 | The distance is just over fifty miles but it can take him three hours to get there . |
| 23 | The first is nine pages of typed script and took her seventeen hours to do . |
| 24 | It took him five hours to walk back to Leyton , where he had a bed-sit . |
| 25 | We 've already got to pay her two hours . |
| 26 | It took her two hours to put the curlers in ! |
| 27 | But actually it does n't tell you anything about the quality of the care which they 're purchasing and the evidence that we are getting increasingly from the community health council is the experience of people of the health service is that actually the quality of the care is getting worse and this is not due to the staff in the health ee the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the e the more detailed plans coming to the next meeting of the for an operation er , four years , it should to be said er , she 's been waiting despite the government 's claim that all operations are done within two years er for very severe varicose veins and surprisingly enough she got them because of course most varicose have been removed her , the north-east Thames region erm , and er she turned up on the Wednesday and the operation had been postponed twice previously er , she was er gone through all the er , various tests which took her four hours cos she had to find all the places herself , there was nobody to show her to X-ray and various other places erm she was prepared for the op and then was sent home because there was n't a bed available ! |
| 28 | ‘ All she could remember was waking up in a shower with him four hours after drinking with him . |
| 29 | He has been accused of being an agent of the CIA , and Ethiopian security gave him 48 hours to leave the country in August 1978 , but no one has found any evidence to confirm these rumours , ‘ I think it 's very unlikely that Ethiopian security would expel somebody on the basis of baseless rumours , ’ White says . |
| 30 | Hayman had given him 48 hours . |