Example sentences of "hours [conj] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is true that some fathers are involved with their children for seconds in a day rather than hours or even minutes , their presence can encourage confidence to make those expeditions and explorations which are vital to the process of child development . |
| 2 | It may occur several times within an organism 's lifetime , sometimes within a span of hours or even minutes . |
| 3 | Uncomfortable feelings absorbed from those who seek our help ( and that includes simply offering a sympathetic ear ) , can linger for many hours or even days — unless we learn how to dissipate such feelings . |
| 4 | In its strongest form , at the perception of a new and beautiful poetic or religious idea , mystics and seers will fall into a trance and remain in it for hours or even days . |
| 5 | The time needed to reach a solution to a problem is much longer ( i.e. it could take several hours or even days ) than the implementation/repair ( i.e. replacing a module or a board/panel can take only 30 minutes ) . |
| 6 | The vast majority of chromosomally unbalanced mouse fetuses die between day 6 and IS ( 8 ) and mitotic activity often decreases several hours or even days prior to the event . |
| 7 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 8 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 9 | Lack of sleep , if the baby is demanding to be feed every two hours or so day and night , can be hell if it goes on for long . |
| 10 | The experiment with actinomycin suggests that for the first 3 hours or so LTP does not depend on gene transcription . |
| 11 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 12 | Several sailors have spent hours and even days under investigation by the Drug Squad after herbs in plastic bags or unmarked containers had been discovered on board . |
| 13 | Charges at long stay car parks Nun 's Close and Yorke Square , both in Richmond , rear of Leyburn Market Place , Gayle Lane , Hawes , and Muker car park in Swaledale will have a maximum waiting time of ten hours with a scale of charges running from 40p for the first two hours and thereafter 20p per hour up to a maximum of £1 per day . |
| 14 | For the workers they provided clauses establishing minimum wages , maximum hours and better working conditions ; and Section 7a of the act gave workers the right to organize and to bargain through representatives of their own choice . |
| 15 | Studies on floor disinfection have in any event shown that within hours and sometimes minutes , of disinfection , numbers of micro-organisms revert to their pre-treatment levels . |