Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them take the working actors ' problems into account and attempt to create classes which can make free hours both disciplined and profitable . |
| 2 | So in a lingering slow fever you might wait several hours for a response to a remedy , whereas in a delirious , high , raging fever one would expect to see changes within ten or fifteen minutes . |
| 3 | We may wait two hours in the cold or dark , but when the show starts , it 's a moment of magic , ’ says Gertrude Holle-Suppa , 44 , a veteran of 20 years on the circuit . |
| 4 | Would n't he rather wait twenty-four hours ? ’ |
| 5 | But we will need 24 hours to assess it . |
| 6 | BBC television will show 70 hours of the championship , beginning in Grandstand tomorrow afternoon and ending on BBC 2 on Sunday , May 4 . |
| 7 | Well I 'll , I 'll try and get down on Monday and see what she says and I say you know she must do three hours on Mondays . |
| 8 | BBC Enterprises , the corporation 's commercial arm , will revive comedy classics such as Steptoe and Son and Dad 's Army , while Thames will contribute 10,000 hours of programmes like Minder and Van der Valk . |
| 9 | She must do five hours a week . |
| 10 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
| 11 | I thought you could only er do two hours ? |
| 12 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 13 | Anyone who feels they can give two hours of their time in mornings or afternoons should contact Margaret Fusco at the Centre , 70 North Road , Belfast 0232 654366 . |
| 14 | RATHER THAN SIT THROUGH ten minutes of The Pocket Dream , any sensible person , unlikely as it may sound , would prefer three hours of wife-beating , child abuse , paranoia , and the rape of a mentally-retarded woman in The Crackwalker , the first drama by the Canadian playwright Judith Thompson to be seen here . |
| 15 | Rather than spend eight hours a day gathering firewood , they will conserve fuel by cooking less frequently or more communally . |
| 16 | I costed this on the basis of staff receiving standard wages and being told on their contract that they would work 30 hours , to cover 24 hours a day . |
| 17 | I think people , if they have any sense , will work shorter hours . |
| 18 | but of course erm as a sort of public to the er , er a gesture to the public erm but one stage during the war when things were getting a bit grim on the war front , it was decided that erm , we should work extra hours as erm , to show that we were pulling our weight , so we used to , instead of starting at nine o'clock until erm half past five , and working on Saturdays as well of course , erm , we had to start at half past eight and finish at six and it was a bit of a fiasco really because nobody erm , you know , well the end of the half past five you were pretty well tired out so erm the rest of the time |
| 19 | In the latter case the judge thought that the term " services " had been too narrowly construed in the past and that allowance should be made for the fact that a wife and mother does not work set hours and that she is in constant attendance on the home . |
| 20 | We have recently succeeded in bringing in a number of new projects but to put it in perspective we need something like 250,000 hours of work a year and a major project like Tencel was about 50,000 in total . |
| 21 | Critics have argued that no evidence exists that Jarman 's weighted factors actually create extra workload ; indeed , some state that doctors in high scoring areas may actually work fewer hours . |
| 22 | In Chapter 11 we showed that an increase in the after-tax wage ( as for example when income tax rates are cut ) will have a substitution effect , tending to make people work longer hours , but an income effect , tending to make them work fewer hours . |
| 23 | The Profitboss might work long hours but , come Friday , he 'll leave the office at 5 pm. and devote the weekend to the family . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'll work all hours God sends . ’ |
| 25 | Residential homes and hostels can accommodate nurses who can only work awkward hours , and who can cover for staff sickness and annual leave . |
| 26 | I walked the glen many times , and looked back on the few trees , lying far in the hollow , that grow near the place where the massacre is said to have begun ; while on either side were deep rock-lined , tree and fern-fringed chasms , leading into seclusions and bleak mountain summits , one could spend long hours exploring . |
| 27 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
| 28 | This time they centred around the inability , on my part , to learn and remember two-and-a-half hours ' solo dialogue , to look remotely like the woman I was playing , and to overcome the prejudices of the millions of Joyce-worshippers who were all sitting out there sticking pins in little waxwork Lipman dolls . |
| 29 | What matters is not how long we spend in Committee , so that we can report those hours to people outside , but what we achieve in that time . |
| 30 | London , for example , will provide ten hours a week , for schoolchildren eligible under certain categories . |