Example sentences of "[adv] [art] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the hour is less pleasant than it first appeared |
| 2 | Reapply thickly every hour , or more frequently if they are in and out of the water . |
| 3 | We were still in the Air Force , postings could come out of the blue at any time , so every hour we could spend together was important . |
| 4 | I 've got a classic on the T V in a few , in perhaps a hour 's time . |
| 5 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 6 | Most classes last for an hour or perhaps an hour and a half . |
| 7 | It was perhaps an hour later that the island 's police chief left them with a clicking heels bow . |
| 8 | My senses returned to me in perhaps an hour , when I beheld the roof burning . |
| 9 | This is the process by which the manager sets aside perhaps an hour per year to talk privately to each adviser , to look back over the year and forward to the next and discuss any concerns that the manager and adviser may have . |
| 10 | The usual pattern is that you take several fish one after the other , and then nothing for perhaps an hour , then several more fish in quick succession , and so on , until either you run out of bait or you have caught the whole shoal . |
| 11 | It was much later , perhaps an hour , wind belting , when Tetsu came along to the 17th . |
| 12 | For most of the time this involved consecutive interpreting , i.e. making notes of what the speaker said and then at the end ( of perhaps an hour 's talk ) repeating the speech in the target language . |
| 13 | Time passed , perhaps an hour , before there was a knock on the door and Louise came in , bringing Miriam a cup of tea . |
| 14 | Phase in your sunbathing gradually , starting with just one hour the first day , and increase your tanning time by perhaps an hour a day . |
| 15 | And I said to Dave what 's this then I 've got at one o'clock an hour 's overtime . |
| 16 | erm A very quick example would be the famous sentence in which Marcel , the narrator , says , ‘ An hour is not merely an hour . |
| 17 | Not only are they usually paid below the legal minimum — a study in 1984 showed three quarters of homeworkers in Britain were earning 1 or less an hour — but they also have to carry the overheads of heating and lighting . |
| 18 | That it was signed by a partner called Hugh Jarse would lead the wary to conclude that the CV Society was as adept at pinching stationery as at extracting money out of fun-loving freshers : after only an hour it had sold four presidencies , six other posts and had about 40 names on a list headed ‘ I 'm interested in your society but do n't want to cough up any money at the moment ’ . |
| 19 | There 's only an hour till the Mass . ’ |
| 20 | It was nine-thirty , only an hour to go before the Dragon closed . |
| 21 | Only an hour later , in Munster , Buller Barracks is coming to life as the soldiers and civilians employed in the workshop start work . |
| 22 | Only an hour ago she had been finishing the evening milking , peaceful in the milking house with Florence . |
| 23 | ‘ Only an hour , ’ Gloria would say . |
| 24 | We will go and buy some bedding plants , she had said yesterday , only an hour after her arrival . |
| 25 | ‘ There 's only an hour to go . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only an hour 's drive away , visit the famous Rock for shopping and sightseeing and a taste of home with English pubs and afternoon teas . |
| 28 | The water was supplied from an eight-wheeled tanker that had arrived in Heymouth only an hour before . |
| 29 | As I recall , then , it was only an hour or so after being first entrusted with the mission that I noticed the young Mr Cardinal alone in the library , sitting at one of the writing tables , absorbed in some documents . |
| 30 | ‘ Our coach was caught in the centre of an enormous traffic jam , and it looked as if we would be lucky to get to the station only an hour or so behind schedule . |