Example sentences of "hour or [adv] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | All too often , we are called to see foals which have been ill for 24 hours or more and by that stage they can be very sick indeed . |
| 2 | It was a wonderful hour or more and later Ian Woosnam called for a knighthood for Jacklin . |
| 3 | He would stay for just an hour or so and then gather up the equipment and disappear . |
| 4 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 5 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 6 | He mounted the horse he had led for the last hour or so and walked it cautiously down into Buttermere which he entered with the utter conviction that he had been there before . |
| 7 | Another quarter of an hour or so and he was solving Michael 's recruitment problems across the board , recommending a dozen good , reliable workers . |
| 8 | Okay so it 's being fairly cloudy this morning around er , well the last half hour or so and it 's going to black for a fair while across lunchtime . |
| 9 | If it 's something you want the police there to deal with quite quickly and if , if they waited an hour or so and the police did n't come then could n't deal with it . |
| 10 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 11 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 12 | ‘ Should we pop out for an hour or so and take a late breakfast ? ’ |
| 13 | But yo you come for an hour or so and then , tha that 'll be enough |
| 14 | But , you know she just puts it on , she does n't want to do any thing for a hour or so and just sit and recover . |
| 15 | He rings you up and goes he goes hello it 's Jonathan and you go oh right hello Jonathan and he does n't say anything so you talk to him for about half an hour or so and then you go alright Jonathan , better go , you know and then he goes no no I 've got something to tell you and you go oh alright what is it then and he goes I ca n't remember it man , just talk to me for a bit longer and I 'll remember it then and it goes on like that for hours and hours and it 's so boring . |
| 16 | Rates of pay for what is a stressful job were extremely low , starting at £1.20 an hour : three-quarters of the unqualified workforce received £2.00 an hour or less and the highest rates of pay were well below £3.00 an hour . |