Example sentences of "two hours ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 2 | The Green Form scheme will provide two hours ' work by a solicitor on a case ( more with an extension ) , but the solicitor can not recover the cost of appearing before a tribunal to argue a case under this component of legal aid . |
| 3 | I hid the inch of yellow knitting , which represented two hours ' work , under my chair , tipped the lampshade to a more discreet angle , and called , " Come in . " |
| 4 | After two hours ' work , I had managed only to hack out a shallow hole hardly large enough to bury a tortoise . |
| 5 | Breeze was on her way to Miss Martindale 's now , for the old lady had intercepted her in the lane the day before , to ask her if she would come and do two hours ' digging at tenpence an hour . |
| 6 | She had to work night and day and survive on two hours ' sleep . |
| 7 | The times are noted in.my diary and , if they are accurate , I must have survived for several days in succession on as little as one or two hours ' sleep per night . |
| 8 | Livings took a bare two hours ' sleep that night . |
| 9 | The marvellous historic and cultural cities of Edinburgh , Berwick-on-Tweed , and Glasgow are under two hours ' drive away . |
| 10 | The new gold rush revolves round the so-called Mother Lode , in the lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada , about two hours ' drive from San Francisco . |
| 11 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |
| 12 | On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne . |
| 13 | to give two hours ' warning before a visit to their capital , so that people could stay indoors |
| 14 | It gives students access to another source of spoken English and it gives them one or two hours ' exposure to the language . |
| 15 | The subscription of £38 a year covers the call-out charge , two hours ' labour , and up to ‘ 250 for parts . |
| 16 | All-year-round protection costs £60 , and that covers the cost of the call-out , the first two hours ' labour and up to £10 of materials on each job . |
| 17 | do n't start me on that , I 'll be doing it in about two hours ' time . |
| 18 | The fact that Blake was missing was not discovered until 7.20 p.m. and the first call to the police did not occur until 7.43 p.m. so Blake had roughly two hours ' start . |
| 19 | Two hours ' climbing brought us to the narrow ledge from which one entered Antony 's cave through a cleft in the cliff-face . |
| 20 | For an extra two hours ' shift , well I suppose we can just afford it , can we ? |
| 21 | It is not available in the first year of the policy and in the second year only £250 — about two hours ' worth for a top London matrimonial lawyer -will be met for each party . |
| 22 | Clients who are assessed as needing a home cleaning service receive vouchers once a month , each representing one or two hours ' worth of cleaning . |
| 23 | Axeen rewrote the material that she used in her course ‘ Teaching the use of the library to undergraduates ’ in fourteen units of instruction , each requiring two hours ' use of the terminal . |
| 24 | In the coal industry , people are now working not two hours ' overtime or nine or 10-hour shifts but 12 or 14 hours or sometimes more per shift . |
| 25 | Lockhart 's flight became lost and returned to the carrier , then set off again with two hours ' fuel already gone . |
| 26 | For full grant to be earned , One-Year courses extended over twenty-four weeks , each meeting of two hours ' duration with an equal division between instruction and class activity . |
| 27 | The course offered here comprises five weekly sessions of two hours ' duration , costs only £16 and is open to individuals or groups . |
| 28 | Blair and I also walked out to another , superb loch where we had splendid sport , Scarilode ; about two hours ' walk along a good track from Market Stance , past Rueval , where Charles Edward Stewart lay waiting for Flora Macdonald , prior to his flight from the Hebrides . |
| 29 | A wide range of habitats and resources was thus available within one or two hours ' walk . |
| 30 | In 1942 , 881 Aleuts had been forced to leave the Aleutian Islands in the north Pacific Ocean at only two hours ' notice following a Japanese landing to the north . |