Example sentences of "a hour the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For over an hour the meeting wrestled with an undefined problem in the order . |
| 2 | After about an hour the shelling stopped and was followed by sporadic mortar and machine gun fire , the latter cutting up the ground along the front of the orchard facing the enemy positions . |
| 3 | About twelve midnight the German positions in the village were over-run , and for about an hour the enemy mortaring in the farm area ceased . |
| 4 | After half an hour the bus started and moved us seventy metres , to the nearest plane , the one we could have walked to , with less effort and staying warmer . |
| 5 | After half an hour the gathering breaks up and the recruits escort their visitors off to lunch , or on a tour of camp for yet more photographs . |
| 6 | After half an hour the first English injury occurred , Andy Lloyd going into the record books as the possessor of the briefest of all Test careers . |
| 7 | It was his inspiration to claim that ‘ At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this new Rolls Royce comes from the electric clock . ’ |
| 8 | So I let her just pass , and said , ‘ Oh , darling , I am looking for a new ‘ element ’ … ’ ; and after half an hour the manager came back to me and said that she was sitting upstairs weeping . |
| 9 | For an hour the three of us crouched inside the leaking tent . |
| 10 | The liquid dispersed the frost , but within an hour the ground was freezing again . |
| 11 | The Dutch oven is a large iron pot on legs with heavy iron top ; a bed of coals is placed under it and on top of the lid and in about half an hour the food is cooked . |
| 12 | After an hour the bodies relax , spiritual delight is increased , and new horizons are revealed with the renewal of strength . ’ |
| 13 | No , maybe not at high speed , but at twenty-five , thirty miles an hour the Canadian can do a lot of damage . |
| 14 | ‘ Within an hour the headache had vanished , the sickness was fading and I felt bright enough to be able to go out . ’ |
| 15 | After about an hour the Fulmar suddenly accelerated and climbed away . |
| 16 | For an hour the two women sat in silent prayer , nervously scanning the other customers . |
| 17 | For an hour the uproar continued . |
| 18 | After an hour the sun clouded over , so they picked up their things and started back towards the fence where they had left their bicycles . |
| 19 | Within half an hour the wings are fully distended so that the two sides of the bag meet flat against one another enclosing the veins between them . |
| 20 | After three quarters of an hour the advocates were informed that they had decided to defer any statement of their reasons and their conclusion as to the appropriate orders for a period of approximately 10 days until 3 February 1992 . |
| 21 | Rostov decided that it was easier to go in search of what would pass in the Simonova for a command bridge than it was to remain in his quarters , while Vorontseff attempted to eradicate within the space of an hour the accumulated disarray of several years of civilian occupation . |
| 22 | After an hour the ship emerged from the jungle , and the Shermans found themselves gazing across an open alluvial plain dotted with isolated clumps of palm . |
| 23 | ‘ After half an hour the barrage was moving over the village . |
| 24 | After a quarter of an hour the sick Du Camp had had enough . |
| 25 | After well over an hour the race was abandoned as the fleet slowly drifted backwards out of the harbour . |
| 26 | It took us over an hour the following morning to get through this pass , a notorious place for ambushes . |
| 27 | For an hour the guests sat patiently listening ; then everybody got up and , with the air of people who have been thinking of little else for some time , demolished the langoor ( free food ) which was waiting for them at the rear of the house . |
| 28 | Within an hour the two women had decided which patterns to order , and Myra settled at her typewriter while Claudia perched on the edge of her desk to phone Dana . |
| 29 | For half an hour the fun goes out of things . |
| 30 | These were not equal , the afternoon session being an hour the longer . |