Example sentences of "of [noun sg] a hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had slipped off the road , despite the manufacturer 's claims that it can clear 20ft drifts and 2,500 tonnes of snow an hour . |
| 2 | The F4U-7 Corsair used anything from 80 to 100 gallons of fuel an hour at cruise power settings . |
| 3 | A veteran of Vietnam and Korea , it weighs in at fifteen tons and guzzles a hundred and fifty gallons of fuel an hour . |
| 4 | Mercenaria pumps up to 11 litres of water an hour through its tissues , becoming the penultimate depository for toxic chemicals and metals until served up as chowder or clams casino . |
| 5 | The machines handle more than four tonnes of rice an hour , scanning 25 000 grains every second , and rejecting substandard colour grains in thousandths of a second . |
| 6 | A kitchen needs something like 10 to 15 changes of air an hour when it is in use , which means , for example , that for a 3m × 2.5m kitchen an extractor fan with a capacity of around 250cu m/hr is needed . |
| 7 | ‘ Besides , my friend Wotherspoon did n't mind being rousted out of bed an hour ago . |
| 8 | Today a combine harvester can produce 30 tonnes of wheat an hour , flour and bread can be produced in a matter of minutes and , in no time at all , the bread reaches the supermarket shelf fresh and ready for consumption . |