Example sentences of "[num] hour [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A three-and-a-half hour run can be superhuman effort for one person and a slow training run for another . |
| 2 | On day five you depart by road for the three-and-a-half hour journey to the lively resort of Pattaya at the Gulf of Siam . |
| 3 | Although he 's co-presenting BBC 's TV Hell ( a dazzlingly obvious three-and-a-half hour antidote to Channel 4 's TV Heaven whereby kitsch rubbish is dredged from the archives ) , Paul Merton does not watch much television . |
| 4 | The best way to fully appreciate this magnificent landscape is to climb the long grey shoulder of Canisp ( 2,700 feet ) , south of Loch Assynt , an easy three-and-a-half hour walk to the summit and back . |
| 5 | MICKY STEWART , the England manager , gave his son , Alec , a gruelling introduction to cricket on the Indian sub-continent when he put the Surrey wicketkeeper-batsmen — along with the rest of the 14-man England squad - through a three-and-a-half hour training session in temperatures of up to 100F at the National Stadium in Delhi yesterday . |
| 6 | The management intend he will remain with the party , though obviously the lengthy bus journey to Nadi yesterday as the prelude to a three-and-a-half hour flight to Sydney today , could have a detrimental effect . |
| 7 | Personal and household 18 per cent worked out , using a finance : wages and salaries calculator , weekly pay for 39½ hour week at £2.65 per hour . |
| 8 | A number of questions involving 12–24 hour clock conversion , calculations of time intervals and calendar dates ( without the presence of a calendar ) were included in parallel mental and written test versions together with questions on other topics . |
| 9 | Forty eight hour turnaround ? |
| 10 | It 's an eight hour crossing , I know that . |
| 11 | After calling for a return to work they organised a series of campaigns , about censorship , the campaign for the eight hour working day . |
| 12 | A good eight hour sleep following a hot bath did not prevent a certain stiffness of limbs when I attended the Cities Service programme rehearsal with Jessica Dragonette and Andre Kostelanetz the next afternoon . |
| 13 | Cos it 's an outdoor job , it 's a three shift system for those on the bottom , er early , morning and late , cos the eight hour day had come in at this time . |
| 14 | Erm and so therefore most people were busily engaged all of the eight hour day . |
| 15 | Day and night are compressed into an eight hour day , so you see everything our castaway hero can get up to . |
| 16 | He was the first man to organize an eight hour day , and two weeks ' vacation with pay . |
| 17 | Now did you work er an eight hour day ? |
| 18 | Yes it was an eight hour day . |
| 19 | Erm , when , when I came back out the forces , a man 's guaranteed week was a forty hour , forty eight hour week . |
| 20 | Why would a maximum forty eight , forty eight hour week lose jobs ? |
| 21 | Acquired Rights Directive , the health and safety and the forty eight hour week . |
| 22 | Er , we keep meaning look at certain things report a eight hour week , including overtime , have a record period of four months and then the filing industry take it away , the work is seasonal . |
| 23 | Now it was also interesting that after he forgot that two weeks ago we had his own Minister , David Hunt , crying on the steps of Brussels about the fact that the forty eight hour week had been passed by a majority vote , with only him opting out . |
| 24 | Well that 's alright Joan , Joan had an eight hour car journey to get |
| 25 | Now those Next Directory customers , they pay for a delivery service whereas with like the Grattan and it 's free you do n't they pay for delivery and we guarantee that they will get forty eight hour delivery service |
| 26 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
| 27 | Well there 's a physical limit to how much we could produce in a an eight hour shift and all the slate makers were adamant that the figures he reckoned they could produce and what they reckoned they could produce you know they were totally different . |
| 28 | With a busy practice at his surgery at Stroud in Gloucestershire , Dr Gordon Horner finds himself working a fifty hour week . |
| 29 | Kylie was up at 5am to begin her 12 hour day on the Neighbours set while Dannii had her own demanding schedule — combining school studies with her own job on a prime time variety show . |
| 30 | If , in fact , traffic had warranted operations through a 12 hour day , then the number of men required to work the system would have been 4 not 3 , with some duplication to provide relief , and the total wage bill would have been at least £8 per week , which makes Thomas 's figure look ridiculous . |