Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [conj] an hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You ca n't possibly do more than an hour , not after a full day 's rehearsal . |
| 2 | The knock on his studio door came less than an hour later . |
| 3 | And every Saab dealer is now bound to down tools and help you out without prior booking if the job takes less than an hour . |
| 4 | The night before his death I spent more than an hour with him and we spoke quietly of the future ; he wanted to be sure that Ray and I would look after Margaret , our step-mother , whom we had come to admire greatly for her devotion to Father . |
| 5 | Dr Alderdice spent more than an hour with the Stormont Minister , along with party colleagues Eileen Bell and Seamus Close . |
| 6 | And in a speech lasting more than an hour , he accused the Republicans of lying to keep the power , prestige and perks of presidency . |
| 7 | There is also initial reluctance to spare more than an hour , though experience shows that interviewees will find time for three or four more sessions . |
| 8 | ‘ George , ’ I said , ‘ we agreed less than an hour ago that there would not be a press announcement . ’ |
| 9 | They wo n't take more than an hour to fill in , and might be quite fun to . |
| 10 | It should n't take more than an hour to type up . |
| 11 | The flight to Edinburgh should take less than an hour . |
| 12 | It took more than an hour to control the blaze at the former Langham Hotel . |
| 13 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 14 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 15 | It then took more than an hour of bathing and shampooing to get Tosh back to his natural ebony colour ! |
| 16 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 17 | It rarely took more than an hour . |
| 18 | The operation , which started just after 8pm , took more than an hour to complete . |
| 19 | The last few miles to Ealing were covered in a jerking crawl which took more than an hour , and daylight was breaking down into darkness as Alison gave directions through the maze of streets and parked cars away from the main shopping area . |
| 20 | The march of uniformed members took more than an hour to pass the saluting base . |
| 21 | AT the magistrates court it took more than an hour to read out all the charges . |
| 22 | Police and firefighters took more than an hour to free the bodies from the wreckage . |
| 23 | But it never lasts more than an hour whatever he does . |
| 24 | In a Board statement issued less than an hour ago , it was announced that Mr Peterkin 's contract had been terminated , to take effect immediately . |
| 25 | A woman who waited more than an hour for an ambulance is to meet senior health managers to discuss the problem in Teesdale . |
| 26 | He was speaking after a meeting with Sir Patrick Mayhew which lasted more than an hour . |
| 27 | He had more than an hour to fill in before the meal : he had a maid bring him beer . |
| 28 | Nigel Kennedy 's been known to spend more than an hour in the shop after a game , on one visit he spent four hundred pounds . |
| 29 | The High Availability Work Group is supposed to provide requirements for technologies that by 1995 will give System V a Class 4 Availability Rate meaning less than an hour of downtime a year in a 24 hour-a-day seven-day-a-week operating situation . |
| 30 | We — he stayed less than an hour . |