Example sentences of "[det] hours [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That hours of work were stated for many trades does not mean that they were always worked to the full . |
| 2 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 3 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 4 | Still driven by the storm they were carried west for some hours into another narrow passage , though now the current had reversed , so what appeared to be a great ebb-tide came rushing towards them . |
| 5 | Some hours of searching brought to light a few finds , these being small targets but nevertheless interesting ones . |
| 6 | I have also noticed that some makes of PP3s have a tendency to swell after some hours of use . |
| 7 | In fact , today 's activities had offered some hours of reprieve from thoughts of him — at least until such time as they were due to meet up later in the afternoon . |
| 8 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 9 | Finally , remember that if a cold front is due in the summer-time , it may be preceded by some hours by a line of unpredicted severe squalls and storms . |
| 10 | I spent some hours in a newspaper office getting nothing , not even any change , out of an understrapper who had learnt his English in Enfield , and wondering less and less intermittently what time the public parks shut . |
| 11 | He spent some hours in the United Kingdom on May 18 , visiting a plant of Royal Ordnance , a British Aerospace subsidiary , to review the development of a multiple rocket artillery system which had been the subject of a contract signed in September 1990 by Royal Ordnance and the Chilean firm Famae . |
| 12 | Well I 've actually spent some hours in the Record Office , I do n't think while you 've been there , erm doing a bit of ancestor hunting , so I am familiar with your work and activities . |
| 13 | Well , I 've actually spent some hours in the Record Office , I do n't think while you 've been there , erm doing a bit of ancestor hunting , so I am familiar with your , your work and activities . |
| 14 | True to Travis 's estimation , they reached the coast some hours before dark . |
| 15 | ‘ However , in my opinion the body had lain for some hours after death in a supine position . ’ |
| 16 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |
| 17 | Less painful , even painless — but once the skin turns visibly pink or red , even some hours after sun exposure , it has burned . |
| 18 | Some hours after the alleged attack , Sharon McLean ran out of the Peace Gardens in Holt Street , near Wrexham police station , and pretended that she had just discovered the body , the jury was told . |
| 19 | On full fuel tanks of five hundred litres , each rig has a road range of one thousand kilometres , or can operate in river current speeds of two metres a second ( about four knots ) for about six and a half hours without refuelling . |
| 20 | North estimates , for example , that if a company has 2,000 personal computers and it takes an average of one and a half hours per year to upgrade software on each of them , then company-wide , this activity takes a total 3,000 hours . |
| 21 | Flexible working may apply to this job and would involve the successful applicant working on average one and half hours per week . |
| 22 | The actual report is completed in one and a half hours under examination conditions . |
| 23 | We were two and a half hours over guidebook time : so much for the armchair boasts of perfect stamina ! |
| 24 | They did n't need to take two and a half hours over it . |
| 25 | EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval . |
| 26 | On 21 February 1934 , for example , the House of Commons spent three and a half hours considering John Banfield 's motion for state pensions at age 60 ‘ sufficient in amount to encourage the retirement from industry ’ of older workers . |
| 27 | Life is hectic , time is precious enough , without having to cope with unwanted visitors staying four and a half hours beyond their welcome . |
| 28 | The two areas did differ in the level of statutory service provision ; in Ipswich , home help input was available only two or three days a week for up to one and a half hours at a time , and a financial assessment and payment for home help had recently been introduced . |
| 29 | After two and a half hours at the leisure centre , Joanna was taken to a police station in Hemel Hempstead . |
| 30 | ( 2 ) While this section applies to any premises , the effect shall be that , for the purposes mentioned in subsection ( 3 ) below , the permitted hours in those premises in the afternoon shall be increased by the addition of one and a half hours at the end thereof . |