Example sentences of "than [adj] hours [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , purchasers should not be concerned about part-time employees ( less than eight hours per week ) as they can not claim unfair dismissal rights . |
| 2 | Firefighters spent more than eight hours at the scene , damping down the smouldering straw and attempting to discover how the blaze started . |
| 3 | The Teatro Anatomico of Padua , the oldest surviving in the world , is once more open after more than 3000 hours of highly specialised restoration work . |
| 4 | The predominance of secure full-time jobs gave way under pressure of high unemployment , weakened trade unions , rising female employment , and the removal of labour market restrictions , to a more flexible workforce , which we can categorize as comprising part-time workers ( conventionally defined as undertaking less than 30 hours per week ) , home workers or home-based workers , temporary staff , and the self-employed ( frequently undertaking work sub-contracted from normal employers ) ; some of these people may be undertaking a ‘ second job ’ in addition to their main one . |
| 5 | The postponement of Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections in Punjab was announced on June 21 , less than 30 hours before the scheduled start of polling in the state . |
| 6 | However , less than 30 hours before polling was due to start , the Election Commissioner announced a postponement . |
| 7 | If your baggage is temporarily lost for longer than 12 hours on the outward journey we will compensate you for the emergency purchase of essential items up to a total of £100 . |
| 8 | In France 's biggest bank raid , two men held the night security chief and his family at gunpoint for more than 12 hours after breaking into their home at dawn . |
| 9 | Two men held the night security chief and his family at gunpoint for more than 12 hours after breaking into their home . |
| 10 | With less than forty-eight hours before the crucial Cabinet meeting , the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Social Services Secretary were in fundamental disagreement . |
| 11 | Instruments appointing proxies must be lodged with the company 's registrars not less than forty-eight hours before the time fixed for the meeting . |
| 12 | B.Ed courses listed ranges from 12 hours to 200+ , and PGCE courses varied from 0 to 60 hours , though only seven PGCE Secondary courses suggested more than 10 hours as a minimum . |
| 13 | Hours of teaching practice varied between 90 and 630 , and supervision ( ignoring those who listed upwards of 100 hours ! ) was often for less than 10 hours in total — noticeably less than for English on average . |
| 14 | The jury , which spent more than six hours considering its verdicts , cleared Mason of threatening to kill Mr Hawes in a separate incident 18 days earlier , but were unable to agree on another charge of affray . |
| 15 | The first review takes place not later than six hours from the time the detention was authorised . |
| 16 | Those who sleep less sometimes claim to do so by choice , self-righteously accusing everyone else of being idle who spend more than six hours in bed . |
| 17 | On a surveillance operation we are looking at , I would n't like to see an officer who is armed , more than six hours in that position . |
| 18 | Thus , in 1982 , from the beginning of May to the end of August , we operated two scanning sonars for more than 1500 hours in day-and-night patrols of the deep northern basin . |
| 19 | I do not however accept that in addition to the hours of care which she provides at home during the school holidays that there should also be an enabler for twenty hours per week as she suggests that would mean that the number of hours of care , and I appreciate of course , that there is some artificiality in dealing with this in pure terms of numbers of hours of care , but nevertheless it provides a sort of common denominator , which can give some indication , that would mean no less than ninety hours of boarding and care per week fifty during the week erm and twenty during the weekend and a further twenty for the enabler , I think that that er is too great and I make no allowance for an enabler at home . |
| 20 | The thought of more than 21 hours on the North Sea was n't exactly appealing . |
| 21 | That was the impression Bowe and Lewis 's representatives gave after more than three hours of talks yesterday aimed at trying to reach an agreement to have the two fight sometime early next Spring . |
| 22 | Two accidents occurred in less than three hours on the A171 Whitby to Guisborough road during Saturday 's foggy conditions . |
| 23 | THE elderly mother of Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley had to wait more than three hours for an emergency operation at an NHS hospital , it was revealed last night . |
| 24 | BBC1 have the London Marathon in the morning , starting at 8.55am , then it 's over to ITV in the afternoon for the Rumbelow 's League Cup final between Manchester United and Nottingham Forest , and in the evening BBC2 give more than three hours to the closing stages of the US Masters from Augusta . |
| 25 | The former Pakistani and Northamptonshire fast bowler was quizzed for more than three hours by detectives at Chelsea after the woman , who has not been named , made a complaint . |
| 26 | But less than three hours after that , fifteen hundred footsoldiers of ours could be there , provided they start within the next half-hour . ’ |
| 27 | Fire-fighters were on the scene for more than three hours after the call at 12.47pm . |
| 28 | Homesitters must not leave home for longer than three hours in the day and one hour after dark . |
| 29 | This would be irrespective of their desire to watch more than 5 hours of TV in a day . |
| 30 | I will reaffirm that I can not condone the use of cannabis , nor for that matter daily watching more than 5 hours of TV . |