Example sentences of "hours a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few hours a scum appears on top of the wort and this rapidly builds up into a great yellowy-brown crust as the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide . |
| 2 | All craft students will spend about 30 hours a year in the Chinese cookery centre , which is sponsored by British Gas ( Eastern ) and Far East Industries . |
| 3 | After an eight-hour shift we went home — off duty — free men , while they in contrast went to their police houses and were available for ‘ discretional duty ’ , at the call of the system twenty-four hours a day ; proving we were independent free men and they were slaves ! |
| 4 | These will usually be young people , belonging to an organisation such as Community Service Volunteers , who receive no more than £25 a week , work at least 24 hours a week and have accommodation provided on the premises . |
| 5 | The majority of these people are over 60 , many are housebound or have mobility problems , and some use oxygen 24 hours a day . |
| 6 | In 1985 , 26% of carers who devoted over 20 hours a week to caring were over 65 themselves . |
| 7 | that the hours of work required for a person to be treated as in ‘ remunerative work ’ will be reduced from not fewer than 24 to not fewer than 16 hours a week from April 1992 . |
| 8 | This will mean that a person working 16 hours a week or more will not be able to claim income support . |
| 9 | Although around one million people were estimated to be caring for at least 35 hours a week , only 109,000 received ICA in December 1989 . |
| 10 | Recent calls by the Home Office Minister , John Patten , for those who are successful to give three hours a week to voluntary causes could be taken more seriously if overall government policy were not pushing people in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | In fact , Ninagawa takes just one month to direct a production and rehearses only five hours a day . |
| 12 | EMPLOYERS gain almost two hours a week on average from early-bird employees , and only 30 per cent of employees contribute no extra time at all , according to a report by the mobile communications group Phonepoint . |
| 13 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 14 | During a tour , the straits ' live show is three hours a night , but they travel for at least three hours a day , as well as doing interviews , a sound check , eating , and phoning home . |
| 15 | During a tour , the straits ' live show is three hours a night , but they travel for at least three hours a day , as well as doing interviews , a sound check , eating , and phoning home . |
| 16 | suddenly the greengrocer/manager has to choose between a safe livelihood and dedicating often sixteen or seventeen hours a day to the hurdle race of the music business . |
| 17 | Radio 1 broadcasts for twenty-one hours a day , although shortly this will be twenty-four . |
| 18 | Currently , Radio I devotes over 5,000 hours a year to recording musicians in its own studios , as well as at live concert performances . |
| 19 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
| 20 | At first she had just worked a couple of hours a week for Graham . |
| 21 | I ask nobody to work seven days a week or twelve hours a day , except in very limited periods when we all have to . |
| 22 | The working man 's 47.7 hours a week in 1964 should have earned him £18.11 ( say £162 a week now ) , but MPs were about to become markedly better off than that as Mr Wilson increased their salaries from £1750 to £3250 per annum ( £29,120 ) . |
| 23 | Membership means that you can call on the AA 's swift and efficient service 24 hours a day , 365 days a year . |
| 24 | Nor did they make any serious efforts to derive income from a huge fixed asset , which was used for only a few hours a week . |
| 25 | Officers are supposed to work 150 hours a month , but Frances , 27 , does more . |
| 26 | On top of all this the pilots need to reach certain training levels , for example night or instrument flying , thus enabling us to fly twenty-four hours a day and in poor weather . |
| 27 | Security is a high priority in all military establishments , and sentries are constantly on patrol , twenty-four hours a day . |
| 28 | The Freemans orderline is open 24 hours a day , seven days a week , and items are delivered free . |
| 29 | I have to spend three hours a day doing all sorts of muscle-building and strengthening exercises . |
| 30 | In a desperately competitive climate , where anyone bright and competent could go down the road and pick up a better paid job with kinder hours and more congenial working conditions from someone like British Telecom , the railways ran a service dependent on people who belonged to a narrow and inbred working culture , with outdated procedures of training and promotion , and an institutional reliance on overtime working , whose wholly disgraceful dimensions are symbolised by the fact that maximum weekly hours were only recently cut to 72 hours a week . |