Example sentences of "hour ['s] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 2 | It was ten-thirty and the wedding was fixed for an hour 's time . |
| 3 | In an hour 's time the men will board a crowded , and today extremely hot , C-130 Hercules aircraft . |
| 4 | At the end of the parade — almost at once — it was announced that ‘ Red Riding Hood ’ and her ‘ wolf ’ had been awarded first prize in the parade , and would the winner , Angela Norcroft , of the 3rd Shortfields Pack kindly come to the prize-giving tent in half an hour 's time for her prize — a bicycle ? |
| 5 | In less than an hour 's time they would be at St Petrock 's , and Susan would be on the platform to meet her , with dear old Sambo , the Airedale , barking his head off with glee . |
| 6 | My bed is under the window ; you might be sitting on it in an hour 's time . |
| 7 | ‘ In an hour 's time . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Then come back to this same place in an hour 's time , when I shall have spoken with the captain . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I shall want the carriage in an hour 's time , O'Farrell . ’ |
| 10 | She can take them again in ’ — he consulted the gold watch on his wrist — ‘ about an hour 's time . ’ |
| 11 | He was told that he would be allowed to drink in one hour 's time when the local anaesthetic had worn off and he was able to swallow . |
| 12 | Create half an hour 's time today to review additional investment opportunities in your area . |
| 13 | Three clues to a certain film , and I 'll tell you the answer in about half an hour 's time , just before four o'clock . |
| 14 | ‘ He told them who he was and where he 'd come from , and they told him : ‘ Come back in an hour 's time and we 'll see . ’ |
| 15 | But he could not sit patiently and wait for the next train , in an hour 's time . |
| 16 | ‘ Only that I 'll be eating lunch in about an hour 's time , ’ he said . |
| 17 | The custodian was taking it back to the clubhouse area , where it would be needed for the final ceremony in about an hour 's time . |
| 18 | Okay next time , an hour 's time . |
| 19 | After Downes had been driven away , Morse and Lewis walked back to their own car , where Morse gave urgent instructions to the forensic lab to sent a couple of their whizz-kids over to the railway station — immediately ! — and to Kidlington HQ to see that a breakdown van would be available in about an hour 's time to ferry away a certain Metro . |
| 20 | Right well that 's no problem er when your wife comes back in an hour 's time |
| 21 | Can you make it in half an hour 's time , you know . |
| 22 | with the lights fading , it 's gon na be five o'clock in half an hour 's time , feed the dogs just before five and then see you you see . |
| 23 | As I missed the train comma , I decided to catch the next one which was in an hour 's time . |
| 24 | the train in an hour 's time . |
| 25 | Yeah , but would n't that make it possible to take that out , and then it would n't make sense , 'cos it would say , as I missed the train which went in an hour 's time if you put another comma , 'cos if you , if you put two commas you could n't take it out . |
| 26 | I 've got a classic on the T V in a few , in perhaps a hour 's time . |
| 27 | In an hour 's time Vitor would be arriving to collect her and Thomas , but she was full of misgivings . |
| 28 | We 're meeting in an hour 's time . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Erm , St John , towards the end of the novel is described as erm he , when he 's asked Jane and she pleads for quarter of hour 's time to think |