Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [num] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE eagerly-awaited reappearance of Champion hurdler Royal Gait has been delayed 24 hours until this afternoon due to the abandonment of yesterday 's meeting at Leopardstown . |
| 2 | STEVE DAVIS has been practising six hours a day during the build-up to the Embassy World championship , such is his determination to win his seventh title . |
| 3 | Bristol Crown Court heard expert evidence that the double spinal fracture which left baby Danielle in terrible pain could have been inflicted 24 hours before she died . |
| 4 | I stretched , grunting with pain as my leg muscles extracted their revenge for having been ignored twelve hours earlier . |
| 5 | In 1987 they had been informed only 45 minutes before they were expecting to hang that a stay of execution had been granted 20 hours earlier . |
| 6 | A few moments later they passed Gilberto walking back up the hill to the place where he had left his own car , just below the massive wall of the columbarium in the cemetery where Ruggiero Miletti had been interred two hours previously . |
| 7 | He reminded the House that the police had been given forty-eight hours notification of the proposed route : ‘ Honourable members on this side of the House who in this respect are charging him [ Paisley ] with gross civic and social irresponsibility must also charge the police with exactly the same thing . ’ |
| 8 | The Preston North End boss celebrated his 44th birthday on Sunday but his fate had been sealed 24 hours earlier with the 2-0 home defeat against Hartlepool . |
| 9 | Hundreds of armed riot police are surrounding the Russian parliament building and pro-Communist rebels inside have been given twenty-four hours to surrender . |
| 10 | Hundreds of armed riot police are surrounding the Russian parliament building and pro-Communist rebels inside have been given twenty-four hours to surrender . |
| 11 | MORE than half a million children have been spared three hours of national curriculum maths tests today . |