Example sentences of "[adv] over an hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at his watch — 0445 hours , just over an hour to go before breakfast . |
| 2 | McLeish , naturally efficient and brought up by a mother with firm views on men 's participation in the drearier household chores , took just over an hour to sort her kitchen to her satisfaction while she got the living-room straight , with all the books unpacked . |
| 3 | In just over an hour he took five wickets , Ambrose chipped in with the other two , and England were all out for 93 . |
| 4 | She was thinking back , to just over an hour ago , when she had met Simon on the sea front . |
| 5 | Work at B.P. went on twenty-four hours a day , in three shifts : 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. , 4 p.m. to midnight , and midnight to 9 a.m. , and added to this was the time spent in travelling to and from our billets some twenty miles away , which usually took just over an hour . |
| 6 | They lived just over an hour away from the venue but decided to stay to make the most of a rare luxury . |
| 7 | Hurtling along the open track and through what might be called a blinding blizzard , the C.P.R. ‘ Special ’ carried Gladstone Murray and his party to Regina in just over an hour . |
| 8 | With superstars Kathleen Battle and Itzhak Perlman lined up to give us just over an hour of Bach arias , one has to accept that almost whatever one says , artists of this calibre act upon collectors like the proverbial honeypot to the bee . |
| 9 | Just over an hour of marvellously invigorating fiddling from some of the best traditional musicians in Ireland . |
| 10 | Although booted and plastered with mud and out of temper with herself and with him , she deposited him at the drawbridge of Sigouri in just over an hour . |
| 11 | Average consumption is around 15 litres a minute , which , with a total capacity of 974 litres , gives just over an hour 's practical safe endurance . |
| 12 | It took just over an hour to empty Wavebreaker of her garbage and dirty linen , and then to hook up the shoreside electricity and pump diesel and fresh water into her tanks . |
| 13 | Her visit lasted just over an hour and a quarter , and she left holding a birthday card for Prince Harry that had been made by the refuge children . |
| 14 | At just over an hour long , Dee 's routine at London 's Duke Of York Theatre , is complex , bizarre and original . |
| 15 | In course of time McKenzie did just that and the four divers slipped over the side , touching down on the deck of the Delos just over an hour after leaving the Ariadne . |
| 16 | Pringle and Mallender bowled demandingly after a rain hold-up of just over an hour . |
| 17 | Each lasts just over an hour and is full of incident ; the narrative bowls along , and the reading by Anthony Hyde is lucid and well-paced . |
| 18 | Twenty-four track , residential facility just over an hour 's drive from Dublin . |
| 19 | Unloading a winter 's worth of frustration in just over an hour , Mark Ramprakash 's murderous 57–ball hundred at Grace Road , the swiftest for Middlesex in one-day cricket , had flourish with knobs on . |
| 20 | Lisa drove home just over an hour later in a state of such fury that she could barely focus . |
| 21 | Is the Prime Minister aware that just over an hour ago I received a letter from British Alcan , which has a factory in my constituency at Falkirk , informing me that 169 of the work force will lose their jobs , not because they are inefficient but because the machinery on which they work is 50 years old ? |
| 22 | I spent just over an hour with Patterson which , I found out later , turned out to be another first . |
| 23 | ‘ It took me just over an hour to drive here from Edinburgh . ’ |
| 24 | In just over an hour 's time up to twenty million people are expected to be watching one television programme — the final episode of Inspector Morse . |
| 25 | They took just over an hour to go through the Maxwell possession … some items were taken away in the boot of the officers ' car . |
| 26 | It took just over an hour for the emergency services to release Lewis . |
| 27 | A dozen babies born in the space of just over an hour have made one man very happy . |
| 28 | Jacques Delors had originally intended to spend the afternoon looking around the JET Fusion Project at Culham … but his visit was cut back to just over an hour after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister John Major . |
| 29 | It reached the Gaelic Knight in just over an hour . |
| 30 | It took the jury of seven men and seven women just over an hour to find the charge not proven against both accused by a majority . |