Hours in A Sentence

    1

    A "map" of the spores should be taken by separating a pileus and placing it flat on a piece of thin paper for a few hours when the spores will fall and leave a nature print of the arrangement of the gills which may be fixed by gumming the other side of the paper.

    2

    A bath, even of very impure zinc, is allowed to stand at about the temperature of the melting-point of the metal for forty-eight or more hours, whereupon the more easily oxidizable impurities can be largely removed in the dross at the top, the heavier metals such as lead and iron settling towards the bottom.

    3

    A constant supply is maintained generally throughout " Water London," although a suspension between certain hours has been occasionally necessitated, as in 1895 and 1898, when, during summer droughts, the East London supply was so affected.

    4

    A couple of hours later, Dan's voice came across his net.

    5

    A duckling only a few hours old if placed in water swims with orderly strokes.

    6

    A few hours had passed since he left Deidre's bed this morning; it was early afternoon in the mortal realm.

    7

    A few hours later Alex and Jonathan were out doing chores and Carmen was in the kitchen fixing supper.

    8

    A few hours later, Quinn would set the power source to the time and location, not informing Howie.

    9

    A few hours later, Sarah crept into his room to check on him.

    10

    A few hundred armed men had assembled at Saint Denis to resist the troops, and early on the morning of the 22nd of November hostilities commenced, which were maintained for several hours and resulted in many casualties.

    11

    A marked disproportion between the life-term of larva and imago is common; the former often lives for months or years, while the latter only survives for weeks or days or hours.

    12

    A police guard blocked Dean's door for the first twenty-four hours, precluding visitors.

    13

    A rearrangement of the attacking forces was carried otit during the following night, and the attempt to gain the highest ground was resumed at dawn on the 8th from the positions that had been acquired 24 hours earlier.

    14

    A series of observations can be easily and more accurately accomplished with the Cape heliometer in half an hour; with the Oxford heliometer it would occupy 2 hours, and with the 4-in.

    15

    A small stickleback kept in an aquarium devoured, in five hours' time, 74 newly-hatched dace, which were about a quarter of an inch long.

    16

    A strong heat is applied for about two hours so as to make the saffron "sweat," and a gentler temperature for a further period of twenty-four hours, the cake being turned every hour so that every part is thoroughly dried.

    17

    A swarm of commissioners ransacked the provinces in search of delinquents, and the council sat daily for hours, condemning the accused, almost without a hearing, in batches together.

    18

    A turret to the right of the portal carries a clock called the Jaquemart, on which the hours are struck by two figures.

    19

    A zincking takes 5-6 hours;1 1 5-2.5% zinc is required for desilverizing.

    20

    About Shiloh Church, a strong rearguard under Bragg repulsed the attacks of Grant and Buell for six hours before withdrawing, and all that Grant and Buell achieved was the reoccupation of the abandoned camps.

    21

    About six or eight hours after starting the distillation is in full swing, and in twenty-four hours it is completed.

    22

    Absolutely. It will take me at least a couple hours, Go!

    23

    Affairs of state were at first discussed at the imperial divan, where the great dignitaries were convened at appointed hours.

    24

    After a few hours of limited rest, they were back in the saddle again.

    25

    After a few solid hours of sleep, his sense of center was back, his mind clear.

    26

    After two hours' exposure, it is wrapped round a frame supported in a given position relative to Elster and Geitel's dissipation apparatus, and the loss of charge is noted.

    27

    After two hours' fighting, the "Monitor" was drawn off, so that more ammunition could be placed in her turret.

    28

    Alex and Lori had been gone over two hours when Josh drove into the yard.

    29

    Algiers maintains communication with Marseilles by a quick service of steamers, which run the 497 miles across the Mediterranean in twenty-eight to thirty hours.

    30

    All interruptions are not so costly, for in shallower waters, with favourable conditions of weather, a repair may be only a matter of a few hours, and it is in such waters that the majority of breaks occur, but still a large reserve fund must be laid aside for this purpose.

    31

    All right, that'll give me about two hours to get ready.

    32

    Altogether the queen was in her carriage for more than four hours, in itself an extraordinary physical feat for a woman of seventy-eight.

    33

    Among its early members Cogers Hall reckoned John Wilkes, one of its first presidents, and Curran, who in 1773 writes to a friend that he spent a couple of hours every night at the Hall.

    34

    An Anomalistic year is the time (365 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes, 48 seconds) in which the earth (and similarly for any other planet) passes from perihelion to perihelion, or from any given value of the anomaly to the same again.

    35

    An ultimatum was presented ordering Turkey within twenty-four hours to dismiss the French ambassador, hand over the Turkish fleet, and make peace with Russia.

    36

    An unskilful workman sometimes ' loses the jar ' and works for hours without accomplishing anything.

    37

    An unusual number of people were enjoying the unseasonable weather, spending the last few hours out of doors; fathers playing catch with sons, youngsters riding trikes or skipping rope, and others content to just drink in the springtime evening.

    38

    And at night what soothing, wondrous hours we spent in the shadow of the great, silent men-of-war.

    39

    And then, there was the magic room upstairs, where she had spent many hours playing as a child — and many hours dreaming as a teen.

    40

    Annual Variation.-When observations are made at irregular hours, or at only one or two fixed hours, it is doubtful how representative they are.

    41

    Another mode of drying is to keep the specimens in a box of dry sand in a warm place for ten or twelve hours, and then press them in drying paper.

    42

    Arslan-Tepe, near Ordasu (two hours from Malatia); large mound whence two sculptured stelae or wall-blocks with inscriptions in relief have been unearthed (now in Constantinople and the Louvre).

    43

    As a rule tsetse-flies are most active during the warmer hours of the day, but they frequently bite at night, especially by moonlight.

    44

    As Cicero tones down his oratory in his moral treatises, so Horace tones down the fervour of his lyrical utterances in his Epistles, and thus produces a style combining the ease of the best epistolary style with the grace and concentration of poetry - the style, as it has been called, of "idealized common sense," that of the urbanus and cultivated man of the world who is also in his hours of inspiration a genuine poet.

    45

    As early as six hours after the injury the polymorpho-nuclear leucocytes are seen passing in large numbers from the dilated and congested blood vessels of the tissues at the margin of the wound into the injured zone, where they carry on an active phagocytosis.

    46

    As May gave way to June, the lengthening daylight hours gave her more time to be with Jonathan and Destiny and still complete taking care of the animals before darkness.

    47

    As soon as the adapters have been cleaeed of their contents, they are replaced, and again left to themselves for two hours, to be once more emptied and replaced, &c. The complete exhaustion of the charge of a furnace takes about eleven hours.

    48

    As the cost of the service varies in proportion to the amount of use, the toll rate is more scientific, and it has the further advantage of discouraging the unnecessary use of the instrument, which causes congestion of traffic at busy hours and also results in lines being " engaged " when serious business calls are made.

    49

    As they sat on the sofa, he thought of the girl lying here just hours before, clinging to life because of him.

    50

    Astrology is in its nature an occult science, and there is no trace of a day of twenty-four hours among the ancient Hebrews.

    51

    At Cadeby Main colliery near Doncaster in 1906, 3360 tons were drawn in fourteen hours from one pit 763 yds.

    52

    At first she though exhaustion might be the cause, but when he started working longer hours, it was obvious that wasn't the case.

    53

    At Freiburg, Gockel found I + and I_ decidedly larger in the early afternoon than in either the morning or the late evening hours.

    54

    At mid-day next day the Zulu army made a desperate attack, lasting over four hours, on Wood's camp at Kambula; the enemy - over 20,000 strong - was driven off, losing fully 1000 men, while the British casualties were 18 killed and 65 wounded.

    55

    At odd hours of lessons she picked up a smattering of Latin, music and natural science, but most days were holidays and spent in country rambles and games with village children.

    56

    At the same time he heard that Pahlen's Cossacks had been withdrawn forty-eight hours previously, thus completely exposing his flank.

    57

    At this rate we'll have twelve pints in less than two hours.

    58

    Betsy spent hours on the computer, searching for results from our second tip but nothing was reported.

    59

    Both lay awake, trying not to disturb the other while neither slept until hours after the sun finally slipped around the corner to the other side of the world.

    60

    Brady's men had dropped her, Elise, and Dan—along with two others—into the forest by helicopter two hours before.

    61

    Brady's voice awoke her from her uneasy doze a few hours later.

    62

    But after three hours, Pescara's light horse having meantime been driven in by the superior light horse of the enemy, the artillery-loving duke of Ferrara conceived the brilliant plan of taking his mobile field-guns to the extreme right of the enemy.

    63

    But after two hours with Cynthia Byrne, he had to fight the inclination to take all of her comments at face value, thereby kissing off any degree of objectivity.

    64

    But Bestuzhev succeeded, at last, in convincing the empress that Chetardie was an impudent intriguer, and on the 6th of June 174.4, that diplomatist was ordered to quit Russia within twenty-four hours.

    65

    But it was 24 hours too late, for Blucher's defeat had rendered the AngloDutch position untenable.

    66

    But the addition was very far from being an improvement on the work of Calippus; for instead of a difference of only five hours and fifty-three minutes between the places of the sun and moon, which was the whole error of the Calippic period, this difference, in the period of eighty-four years, amounted to one day, six hours and forty-one minutes.

    67

    But there are more than twice as many visible in the early morning hours as in the evenings, and during the last half of the year there are also more than twice as many visible as during the first half.

    68

    But we have a couple of hours to wait.

    69

    By this arrangement " religious instruction of a purely historical character " was given in all government schools for two hours every week, and might be given in Dutch.

    70

    Call her back in a few hours.

    71

    Can we please stop playing twenty questions and just tell me what you've been doing for the last two and a half hours?

    72

    Carmen, Felipa and even Jonathan worked for almost two hours before they established something close to a normal atmosphere.

    73

    Cars, however, are too valuable to be used in this way for more than a few hours, and it is usual to erect large storage bins at the mine, at concentration works and metallurgical establishments, in which the mineral may be stored, permitting cars, wagons and vessels to be quickly emptied or loaded.

    74

    Changes undergone in the immortal world normally weren't permanent, once they returned to their world for twenty-four hours.

    75

    Check your systems for threats, anything in the last twenty-four hours that seems out of place.

    76

    Computation from modern data shows that 235 lunations are 6939 days, 16.5 hours; and 19 solar years, 6939 days, 14.5 hours.

    77

    Cosimo employed almost the last hours of his life in listening to Ficino's reading of a treatise on the highest good; while Lorenzo, in a poem on true happiness, described him as the mirror of the world, the nursling of sacred muses, the harmonizer of wisdom and beauty in complete accord.

    78

    Crushed, she realized she had six hours to keep Jade busy in the hopes he didn.t kill her.

    79

    Cushing himself swam to the swamps on the river bank, and after wading among them for hours reached a Federal picket boat.

    80

    Cynthia eventually bowed to Martha's sobs and crept into her room, spending most of the dark hours holding the grieving child.

    81

    Cynthia had volunteered a couple of hours selling tickets for the Ouray Chamber's Jeep raffle.

    82

    Davout, however, had left a garrison of 1800 men in Regensburg, who delayed the junction of the Austrian wings until the 10th inst., and on the same day the emperor, having now reunited his whole right wing and centre, overwhelmed the covering detachments facing him in a long series of disconnected engagements lasting forty-eight hours, and the archduke now found himself in danger of being forced back into the Danube.

    83

    Dean had pondered that very question during his sheep-counting hours the prior night.

    84

    Dean knew if he were honest with himself he'd admit he was tickled pink during those few hours that it appeared Jeffrey Byrne's body had been found.

    85

    Dean pitied his wife, knowing the grueling trip that lay before her over the next several hours, not knowing what awaited her landing.

    86

    Dean's snuggled slumber drifted to wakefulness sometime in the heart of the wee hours when a metallic sound of ringing returned him to the world of the living.

    87

    Dogmatic teaching was prohibited during school hours, except in rural schools when parents required such teaching to be given.

    88

    During the business hours (1-3 p.m.) the exchange is crowded by some 5000 merchants and brokers.

    89

    Earthy matter and other matter precipitated and fallen on the copper double bottom may be dislodged by a slowly revolving scraper - say every twelve hours - and ejected through the bottom discharge cock; and thus the heating surface of the copper bottom will be kept in full efficiency.

    90

    Ed had suffered miserably for hours because she had disobeyed Alex.

    91

    Ed had suffered needlessly for hours because she had done something careless – after promising she wouldn't.

    92

    Effective superintendence even by overseers became less easy; the use of chains was introduced, and these were worn not only in the field during working hours but at night in the ergastulum where the slaves slept.

    93

    Eight hours constitute a legal day's work for all employees except those engaged in farm labour or domestic service.

    94

    Even this plan began to fizzle when she returned home a few hours later.

    95

    Every twenty-four hours or so the flow of juice may be conveniently stopped, and, after all the impurities have subsided, the superincumbent clear liquor may be decanted by a cock placed at the side of the cone for the purpose, and the vessel may be washed out.

    96

    Few are found to observe the law concerning the Five Hours of Prayer, and many fail to put in an appearance at the Friday congregational services in the mosques.

    97

    Finally, in 1254, we find the university officially prescribing how many hours are to be devoted to the explanation of the Metaphysics and the principal physical treatises of Aristotle.

    98

    Fir trees and branches from the neighbouring forest are collected and planted in front of the houses, so that for a few hours Hasselt has the appearance of being restored to its primitive condition as a wood.

    99

    For children between sixteen and eighteen years of age and for women the hours of labour in a factory are limited to ten a day, unless to prepare for a short day or a holiday, and the days to six a week.

    100

    For children under sixteen years of age who are so employed the hours of labour are limited to eight a day and the days to six a week, and such children must not begin work before eight o'clock in the morning or continue after five o'clock in the evening.

    101

    For the present their means were very scanty, and, as the ardent royalism of his brother officers limited his social circle, he plunged into work with the same ardour as before, frequently studying fourteen or fifteen hours a day.

    102

    For three hours after sunrise there was no fighting; then Henry, finding that the French would not advance, moved his army farther into the defile.

    103

    For three hours the professional regiments of all sorts in the French lines rivalled one another in enduring the fire unmoved, the forerunners of the military systems of to-day, landsknechts, Picardie and Piedmont, showing the feudal gendarmerie that they too were men of honour.

    104

    For twelve hours previously to its administration no food should be given, in order that the intestinal tract should be empty so as to expose the tapeworm to the full action of the drug.

    105

    From 1416 citizens were obliged to hang out candles between certain hours on dark nights to illuminate the streets.

    106

    From the flash of the rifles, it was clear that the French main position was still intact, and as every body of troops within thirty-six hours' call had been engaged there seemed little prospect of renewing the struggle next morning.

    107

    From the time when he was bidden to leave his country to enter the unknown land, Yahweh was ever present to encourage him to trust in the future when his posterity should possess the land, and so, in its bitterest hours, Israel could turn for consolation to the promises of the past which enshrined in Abraham its hopes for the future.

    108

    Fully aware of the danger, he pays his addresses with extreme caution, frequently waiting for hours in her vicinity before venturing to come to close quarters.

    109

    Gabriel had stayed with her for hours without showing any sign he was ready to leave.

    110

    Give me a couple of hours then we'll leave.

    111

    Go rest up for a couple hours.

    112

    God, he thought, as he laid back his aching head, get me through the next few hours and maybe they'll all be gone!

    113

    Great prostration, vomiting and cold, clammy perspiration follow within one to three hours.

    114

    Had Alex spent the night in the barn, or had it snowed this much in a few hours?

    115

    Had it held out even forty-eight hours longer events before Paris and Orleans might have taken a different turn.

    116

    Haemorrhage has been classified as - (I) primary, occurring at the time of the injury; (2) reactionary, or within twenty-four hours of the accident, during the stage of reaction; (3) secondary, occurring at a later period and caused by faulty application of a ligature or septic condition of the wound.

    117

    He also welcomed on behalf of the Government an Eight Hours Miners bill.

    118

    He attended lectures on grammar, and his favourite work was St Augustine's De civitate Dei, He caused Frankish sagas to be collected, began a grammar of his native tongue, and spent some of his last hours in correcting a text of the Vulgate.

    119

    He calls at weird hours and you must do what he says.

    120

    He complains especially of his tutors, and in one case with abundant reason; but, by his own confession, they might have recriminated with justice, for he indulged in gay society, and kept late hours.

    121

    He complains of the busy idleness in which his time was spent; but, considering the circumstances, so adverse to study, one is rather surprised that the military student should have done so much, than that he did so little; and never probably before were so many hours of literary study spent in a tent.

    122

    He concluded by saying that the next 36 hours would be the most critical.

    123

    He crossed to the windows and opened them, assessing it to be only a few hours before dawn.

    124

    He didn't remember how he got it, and he doubted it'd been there before kiri put it there hours before.

    125

    He fell into silence again for several hours.

    126

    He felt like a packaged pound of dog meat after slightly less than three hours sandwiched in his warm and comfortable bed between Ethel Rosewater's last frenzied spasm of pleasure and the screaming alarm clock.

    127

    He felt the impact of the past few hours much more than he preferred.

    128

    He had driven most of the two hours they were together while Patsy slept.

    129

    He had intended to spend a few hours with his family in Texas while he waited for his flight out of Houston.

    130

    He had to delay the French advance for 24 hours and give time for Blucher's concentration, at the same time retaining his own freedom of manoeuvre, and this in spite of the great length of the summer day, the short distance that he lay 'in front of Fleurus, the tremendous numerical superiority of the French and Napoleon's personal presence at their head.

    131

    He had to pass five hours at a time to have them counted.

    132

    He immediately began to complain to Hyde, earl of Clarendon, of the poverty of the see, and based claims for a better benefice on a certain secret service, which he explained on the 20th of January 1661 to be the sole invention of the Eikon Basilike, The Pourtraicture of his sacred Majestic in his Solitudes and Sufferings put forth within a few hours after the execution of Charles I.

    133

    He pretends to drown, sleeps on the beach for a few hours, and about dawn pedals off into the sunrise.

    134

    He pulled his phone free, realizing neither Toni nor Darian had checked in for a couple of hours.

    135

    He really let things go the past few months—almost no billable hours.

    136

    He retained his intellectual lucidity and an absolute command of his faculties to the last, reading Shakespeare with obvious appreciation until within a few hours of his death.

    137

    He returned a few hours later, made a drink, and went to the kitchen where Sarah had started making breakfast for Connor.

    138

    He simply squeezed her hand and said he would see her in a few hours.

    139

    He spent a few hours setting up the explosive mechanisms and issuing new battle plans for the space war and ordered his ground troops to evacuate the planet.

    140

    He started work at the age of seven in a ropeworks, attending the wheel of a rope-spinner for ten hours a day, and on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings toiled in a barber's shop. He afterwards became a gasworker, and in 1889 he helped to found the National Union of Gas Workers and General Labourers, becoming its general secretary.

    141

    He then on the 7th of October drew up a final plan, in which one again recognizes the old commander, and this he immediately proceeded to put into execution, for he was now quite aware of the danger threatening his line of retreat from both Blucher and Schwarzenberg and the North Army; yet only a few hours afterwards the portion of the order relating to St Cyr and Lobau was cancelled and the two were finally left behind at Dresden.

    142

    He then retired into a neighbouring desert, where he lived upon herbs and upon the milk of a hind which came to him at stated hours.

    143

    He took her arm with one of the hands that had explored every part of her body – or the body he thought was hers - not even a few hours before.

    144

    He was awake for several hours before falling asleep again.

    145

    He was for many years .professor of medicine at Leiden, where he lectured five hours a day, and excelled in influence and reputation not only his greatest forerunners, Montanus of Padua and Sylvius of Leiden, but probably every subsequent teacher.

    146

    He was hungry, but dinner was going to wait a few hours.

    147

    He'd spent hours on her, disabling her and then hurting her.

    148

    He'd spent the last few hours with Lori.

    149

    He's not expecting me for another couple of hours.

    150

    Her chief amusement during her leisure hours was sweeping the heavens with a small Newtonian telescope.

    151

    Her guards changed every eight hours, and this one would.ve started his shift at midnight.

    152

    Her hand shaking, she checked the log to see it had last been accessed by General Greene twenty-five hours ago.

    153

    His advocacy of temperance had much to do with securing the passing of the Forbes Mackenzie Act, which secured Sunday closing and shortened hours of sale for Scotland.

    154

    His boss was over two-thousand miles away and, while he wouldn't be too happy about Keaton spending the night with her, he would certainly approve of any hours spent watching over her.

    155

    His gaze lingered before he strode towards his bedroom, determined to get a few hours of sleep.

    156

    His little account books of income and outlay, with every item entered down to a few hours before his death, are accurate and neat enough to have satisfied an ancient Roman householder.

    157

    His wife besought the gods below that he might be permitted to return to earth for the space of three hours.

    158

    Hours later they were still awake, talking intermittently, taking comfort in one another.

    159

    Hours later, she dropped onto the plush guest bed, clad in a T-shirt and underwear after a hot shower.

    160

    How'd you like to sit on the damn toilet for hours?

    161

    However, if they didn't hurry, Sofi would come back with a child before twenty-four hours passed in the mortal world..

    162

    I can't watch them twenty-four hours a day, you know.

    163

    I didn't want to wake you but you've been asleep for over two hours.

    164

    I guess when you stop counting hours and days and just count months or years—

    165

    I must have been there three hours.

    166

    I often tell them stories or teach them a game, and the winged hours depart and leave us good and happy.

    167

    I read a passage in a novel last evening as I sat by the fire, trying to wile away these idle hours.

    168

    I suppose I could use a few hours away from this place, though.

    169

    I took the ring you gave me and I too scratched that identical message on my bedroom window, the very same room where you and I have stolen our few hours together.

    170

    I'll see you in a few hours.

    171

    I'm not sure – probably a couple of hours.

    172

    If double-bottomed defecators are used in sufficient number to allow an hour and a half to two hours for making each defecation, and if they are of a size which permits any one of them to be filled up by the cane-mill with juice in ten to twelve minutes, they will make as perfect a defecation as is obtainable by any known system; but their employment involves the expenditure of much high-pressure steam (as exhaust steam will not heat the juice quickly enough through the small surface of the hemispherical inner bottom), and also the use of filter presses for treating the scums. A great deal of skilled superintendence is also required, and first cost is comparatively large.

    173

    If in the course of the first twenty-four hours this larva meet with a tadpole it attaches itself at once and undergoes further development.

    174

    If the first paroxysm should not cease within the twenty-four hours, the fever is not reckoned as an intermittent, but as a remittent.

    175

    If the helo ride hadn't taken three hours, she would have thought they never left.

    176

    If the plants are subjected to some process, before mounting, by which injurious organisms are destroyed, such as exposure in a closed chamber to vapour of carbon bisulphide for some hours, the presence of pieces of camphor or naphthalene in the cabinet will be found a sufficient preservative.

    177

    If you're not going to be around more than a few hours, it couldn't be that important to you.

    178

    In 1853 the Fort of the Twenty-four Hours was demolished, and in the angle specified by Haedo the skeleton of Geronimo was found.

    179

    In 1864 he exhibited "Dante in Exile" (the greatest of his Italian pictures), "Orpheus and Eurydice" and "Golden Hours."

    180

    In 1893 an act was passed by parliament giving the Board power to interfere if or when representations are made to them by or on behalf of any servant or class of servants of a railway company that the hours of work are unduly long, or do not provide sufficient intervals of uninterrupted rest between the periods of duty, or sufficient relief in respect of Sunday duty.

    181

    In 1899 a county workhouse was established in New Castle county, in which persons under sentence must labour eight hours a day, pay being allowed for extra hours, and a diminution of sentence for good behaviour.

    182

    In 1908, by the opening of a railway along the Florida Keys, the time of passage by water between Cuba and the United States was reduced to a few hours.

    183

    In a city of the first or second class every boy between fourteen and sixteen years of age who has an employment certificate, but has not completed the course of study prescribed for the elementary public schools or the equivalent, must attend an evening school not less than six hours each week for a period of not less than sixteen weeks each year, or a trade school not less than eight hours a week for sixteen weeks a year.

    184

    In a rush to get to some place you didn't want to go a few hours ago?

    185

    In a very short period - within three or four hours after infection - there appears to have been a message conveyed to the defenders of the body both as to the point of attack and the nature of the invasion.

    186

    In about two hours the t2 Prussian battalions and 3 batteries found themselves assailed by upwards of 40 Austrian battalions and zoo guns, and against such swarms of enemies each man felt that retreat from the wood across the open meant annihilation.

    187

    In all cases the mean value for the 24 hours is taken as 100.

    188

    In Dean's mind, her attitude and actions eliminated any thought that she might have read or learned of Annie's final hours earlier.

    189

    In driving levels it is necessary to cut grooves vertically parallel to the walls, a process known as shearing; but the most important operation is that known as holing or kirving, which consists in cutting a notch or groove in the floor of the seam to a depth of about 3 ft., measured back from the face, so as to leave the overhanging part unsupported, which then either falls of its own accord within a few hours, or is brought down either by driving wedges along the top, or by blasting.

    190

    In each was a piano, the eccentric master of the whole being fond of music as the recreation of his literary hours.

    191

    In February 1746 he allowed himself to be entrapped by the intrigues of the Pelhams into accepting the secretaryship, but resigned in forty-eight hours.

    192

    In from twelve to twenty-four hours these severe constitutional symptoms usually pass off, but in the meantime the swelling and discoloration have spread enormously.

    193

    In January 1907 seven inches of rain fell in 24 hours.

    194

    In many places longitudinal dunes are found exceeding a day's journey in length, the valleys between which take three or four hours to cross; but the most striking feature of the Nafud are the high crescent-shaped sand-hills, known locally as falk or falj, described by Blunt and Huber, who devoted some time to their investigation.

    195

    In most cases two distinct maxima and minima occur in the 24 hours.

    196

    In other words, each pound of chlorate would require an expenditure of nearly 5.1 e.h.p. hours.

    197

    In Scott's early days a journey to London was beset with difficulties and even dangers; but railways have now brought it within a few hours' distance, and Scottish artists and literary men are tempted to seek a wider field.

    198

    In spite of gaining two hours with the time change, it was still late when the cross-coun­try travelers finally bedded down in a quiet motel in Golden, Colorado, after a shared ride from the Denver airport.

    199

    In spite of the cloudy weather and the threat of rain, Dean ended the daylight hours listening to the hum of his bike tires on the country roads west of Parkside.

    200

    In the few hours remaining before his departure, her head was so far in the clouds that she didn't even notice he said nothing about marriage.

    201

    In the first two hours at his desk, 20 people came up to Dean inquiring about poor Fred O'Connor.

    202

    In the governor's garden, in Quebec, there is also a monument to the memory of Wolfe and his gallant opponent Montcalm, who survived him only a few hours, with the inscription " Wolfe and Montcalm.

    203

    In the past forty-eight hours, there had been fifty perimeter breaches, all from the west wall.

    204

    In the time of Irenaeus the fast before Easter was very short, but very severe; thus some ate nothing for forty hours between the afternoon of Good Friday and the morning of Easter.

    205

    In the United Kingdom the drawing of coal is generally confined to the day shift of eight hours, with an output of from 100 to 150 tons per hour, according to the depth, capacity of coal tubs, and facilities for landing and changing tubs.

    206

    In thirty-six hours no symptoms are left.

    207

    In this form a large number, after being cooked or stoved in moist heat for about twenty-four hours, are piled between plates in an hydraulic press, and subjected to great pressure for a month or six weeks, during which time a slow fermentation takes place, and a considerable exudation of juice results from the severe pressure.

    208

    In this process the purified ore is mixed with about one-fifth of its weight of a noncaking coal or anthracite smalls, the mixture being moistened to prevent it from being blown off by the draught, and is then fused on the sole of a reverberatory furnace for five or six hours.

    209

    In this state the patient may die in about twelve hours.

    210

    In this way continuous working has been rendered possible, whereas formerly operations had to be stopped every twelve or fifteen hours to allow the over-heated blocks and furnace to cool down.

    211

    Incredibly, the winning time is just over two hours!

    212

    It didn't appear to be far, and it was hours before she'd be asleep on her side of the world.

    213

    It had no knowledge of the state of affairs on the battlefield, or in the direction of Bruville, though Prussian cavalry had been observing the approach of Ladmirault's corps for some hours.

    214

    It had only been two hours.

    215

    It hardly affects the small intestine, but markedly stimulates the muscular coat of the large intestine, causing purging in about fifteen hours.

    216

    It is also prepared by digesting precipitated mercuric sulphide with an alkaline sulphide fox some hours; it is said that Chinese vermilion owes its superiority to being made in this way.

    217

    It is said that the output of single shafts has been raised by this method to 3500 and 4500 tons in the double shift of sixteen hours.

    218

    It is thus able to accommodate vessels up to Boo tons burden; and the passage from Lubeck to Lauenburg occupies 18 to 21 hours.

    219

    It puts through 9-12 tons of ore in twenty-four hours, reducing the percentage of sulphur to 2-4%, and requires four to six men and about 2 tons of coal.

    220

    It seemed like hours before we found our way out.

    221

    It seems more like days than hours.

    222

    It was almost five; they'd been at the store for seven hours!

    223

    It was almost twenty-four hours before Shipton and Donnie got back to civilization, with the kid's body.

    224

    It was Delaware, in the middle of nowhere and I watched the house for hours before I took my prize.

    225

    It was for the most part written laboriously, and polished with unsparing care, line by line, often as he rode from one patient to another, and it occupied the leisure hours of many years.

    226

    It was going to be one of those evenings when lovemaking lasted gracefully for hours.

    227

    It was hours before I calmed down.

    228

    It was obvious that what they had failed to do by surprise was hopeless now that twenty-four hours had been given in which the Germans 1 Steinmetz was shortly afterwards relieved of his command and returned to Germany.

    229

    It was still early and Dean figured they'd get back to Parkside in time for a few hours of biking.

    230

    It was two in the morning on Saturday and she had only been asleep a few hours.

    231

    It will be light for a couple more hours at least.

    232

    It would take hours to fill a single bladder to trade to the northerners for their support.

    233

    It'll keep you from collapsing for about twelve hours.

    234

    It's a good six hours away and that's only as long as she's been gone.

    235

    It's after hours but you can leave word.

    236

    It's already been hours!

    237

    It's possible he waited around hours, until the afternoon when the police had left and it was quiet.

    238

    It's three-thirty; I'll be gone two or three hours tops.

    239

    Jackson had a few hours before he needed to shower.

    240

    Jackson knew he had his work cut out for him in order to be back in less than three hours.

    241

    Jackson longed to make their last few hours of innocence count.

    242

    Jacopo Niccolini, one of a religious fraternity dedicated to consoling the last hours of condemned men, remained with him.

    243

    Jeffrey Byrne spent very little time there—far too few hours to accomplish all of that business.

    244

    Jeffrey Byrne, age 38, of 156 Maid Marian Lane, Parkside, apparently drowned in the early morning hours of Tuesday, May fourth while on a business trip in Norfolk, Virginia.

    245

    Just a few hours, but then I'm going to shop for a Christmas present for Samantha.

    246

    Just because she threw herself at you hours before she died doesn't make you culpable.

    247

    Kiera dreamt of a planet filled with spiders and dinosaurs and awoke in her bed a couple of hours later to the soft sound of her alarm clock going off.

    248

    Kiera's tears stopped sometime during the hours of explanation and history lessons Evelyn gave.

    249

    Like elephants and buffaloes they lie asleep during the heat of the day, and feed during the night and in the cool hours of early morning and evening.

    250

    Look. It's two hours later in Indiana.

    251

    Louis Charles was then separated from his mother and aunt to be put in his father's charge, except for a few hours daily, but was restored to the women when Louis was isolated from his family at the beginning of his trial in December.

    252

    Marching rapidly, however, Albertone outdistanced the other columns, but, in consequence of allowing his men an hours rest, arrived upon the scene of action when the Abyssinians, whom it had been hoped to surprise at dawn, were ready to receive the attack.

    253

    Meanwhile the king, Moltke, and Bismarck, had ridden back behind Gravelotte where they passed two hours of intense anxiety.

    254

    Meanwhile two long hours had been wasted on the right whilst Grouchy and Vandamme deliberated over their plan of action in front of the Prussian brigade at Gilly; and it was not until the emperor himself again reached the front, about 5.30 P.M., that vigour replaced indecision.

    255

    More recently legislation has beenassed to safeguard the lives and interests of Hours of P g Lab ur.

    256

    Most mares foal at night, but I think it may happen within a few hours.

    257

    Most remarkable is the presence of a number of beetles along the seashore between tide-marks, where, sheltered in some secure nook, they undergo immersion twice daily, and have their active life confined to the few hours of the low ebb.

    258

    Mrs. Lincoln hopped up, stretching her lan­guid body and yawning, as if wondering why these two idiots were keeping such late hours.

    259

    Much later, sometime in the deep hours of the night, he awoke to the sound of thunder and the rush of wind.

    260

    Musset, though he depended on her exertions, was first bored and then irritated at the sight of this terrible vache a ecrire, whose pen was going for eight hours a day, and sought diversion in the cafés and other less reputable resorts of pleasure.

    261

    Ney had allowed the valuable hours to slip away when he could have stormed Quatre Bras with ease and ensured co operation with his master.

    262

    Nights were sleepless bouts of coughing, and days were endless hours of work.

    263

    No, it'll be a few hours before we come up.

    264

    No. It's two hours later in Indiana.

    265

    Nor can Idrisi's map of the world, were drawn at intervals of zams, supposed to be equal to three hours' sail.

    266

    Normally he wouldn't go more than a few hours without thinking about his next meal, but Elisabeth filled his thoughts so completely, there was no room for anything else.

    267

    Now she was beginning to think about those things during waking hours.

    268

    Now you come back, hours before your wedding, unsure of everything.

    269

    Observations have usually been limited to a portion of the year, or to a few hours of the day, whilst the results from different stations differ much in details.

    270

    Occupying 135 degrees of latitude, living on the shores of frozen or of tropical waters; at altitudes varying from sea-level to several thousands of feet; in forests, grassy prairies or deserts; here starved, there in plenty; with a night here of six months' duration, there twelve hours long; here among health-giving winds, and there cursed with malaria - this brown man became, in different culture provinces, brunette or black, tall or short, long-headed or short-headed, and developed on his own hemisphere variations from an average type.

    271

    Of course, that meant almost four hours of driving back and forth.

    272

    Officers, commonly called wardens in England, were elected by the members, and their chief function was to supervise the quality of the wares produced, so as to secure good and honest workmanship. Therefore, ordinances were made regulating the hours of labour and the terms of admission to the gild, including apprenticeship. Other ordinances required members to make periodical payments to a common fund, and to participate in certain common religious observances, festivities and pageants.

    273

    On his deathbed he turned to the devoted pupils who watched over their master's last hours.

    274

    On the 2nd-13th of August 1704 Eugene and Marlborough set their forces in motion towards the hostile camps; several streams had to be crossed on the march, and it was seven o'clock (five hours after moving off) when the British of Marlborough's left wing, next the Danube, deployed opposite Blenheim, which Tallard thereupon garrisoned with a large force of his best infantry, aided by a battery of 24-pounder guns.

    275

    On the 9th of July he received an order from the provisional government at Paris to leave France within twenty-four hours.

    276

    On the i r th of October, when they began their march, the road along the Danube was swept into the river, carrying with it several guns and teams, and hours were consumed in passing the shortest distances.

    277

    On the other hand, the advocates of admitting the feed into a vacuum pan in many minute streams appeal rather to the ignorant and incompetent sugarboiler than to a man who, knowing his business thoroughly, will boil 150 tons of hot raw sugar in a pan in a few hours, feeding it through a single pipe and valve io in.

    278

    On the top of the tower is the effigy of a man in iron who strikes the hours with a hammer.

    279

    Once again, she didn't answer directly but described a well-known seafood restaurant on the New Jersey shore, at least two hours from Parkside.

    280

    One minute, telling me you don't want anything to do with me beyond your duty and the next, sitting on the beach with me for hours because you're worried I'll find a tall building to dive off of, she grumbled.

    281

    Only here for a few hours and already someone doesn't like me.

    282

    Part of the garrison remained loyal to the sultan, but after five hours of severe fighting Shevket Pasha was able to occupy the capital (April 25).

    283

    Plan on disassembling our camp within the next forty-eight hours.

    284

    Polymitarcys virgo, which, though not found in England, occurs in many parts of Europe (and is common at Paris), emerges from the water soon after sunset, and continues for several hours in such myriads as to resemble snow showers, putting out lights, and causing inconvenience to man, and annoyance to horses by entering their nostrils.

    285

    Processes of annealing, or very gradual cooling, are intended to relieve these strains, but such processes are only completely effective when the cooling, particularly through those ranges of temperature where the glass is just losing the last traces of plasticity, is extremely gradual, a rate measured in hours per degree Centigrade being required.

    286

    Putting it off for a few hours wouldn't be much help.

    287

    Pythium, which causes the damping off of seedlings, reducing them to a putrid mass in a few hours, and Phytophthora, the agent of the potato disease.

    288

    Reared in this way they are capable of marvellous endurance, marching during a raid twenty hours a day for eight or ten days together.

    289

    Recovery is sudden, and within a few hours the patient becomes bright and intelligent.

    290

    Scenes of remarkable activity may be witnessed here and at Billingsgate in the early hours of the morning when the stock is brought in and the wholesale distributions are carried on.

    291

    Sebastiani, commanding the advanced guard, overtook the Russians in the act of evacuating Moscow, and agreed with the latter to observe a seven hours' armistice to allow the Russians to clear the town, for experience had shown the French that street fighting in wooden Russian townships always meant fire and the consequent destruction of much-needed shelter and provisions.

    292

    Seven hours a day he spent on his knees in prayer and three times a day he scourged his emaciated body.

    293

    Several hours after Deidre walked through the portals back to Atlanta, Gabe's soul radar began working again.

    294

    Several hours later, just as evening set in, she entered the disaster that was her apartment.

    295

    Several works were written on the capture of Acre in 1291, especially the Excidium urbis Acconensis, a treatise which emerges to throw light, after many years of darkness, on the last hours of the kingdom.

    296

    She barely knew the man at her back, but she.d felt his absence even during the few hours in the day they weren.t together.

    297

    She didn't move for four hours, yet her body slowly returned to its normal temperature.

    298

    She had gone home to sulk causing, in her mind, Fred to suffer hours of grief and agony from her selfish inaction.

    299

    She had to get out of there and go somewhere safe, her apartment, hours away from where the murderer was.

    300

    She hadn't seen her new mate, Darkyn – the Dark One – since he drank his fill of her hours before and left.

    301

    She lay awake for what must have been hours.

    302

    She needed anything to take her mind off the next few hours, because she had no idea if she'd survive what she was about to try.

    303

    She was not bleeding, for which she was grateful, but her body ached as if it had been flung around a stone room for hours.

    304

    She was panicking, recalling the horrors of the hours at Sasha's hands.

    305

    She was supposed to meet him in a few hours.

    306

    She'd been terrified that day, unaware she'd be mated to him twenty four hours later.

    307

    She'd spent several hours in his office talking to a dead man?

    308

    Since 19 Julian years make 6939 days, 18 hours, the relation errs by only I.

    309

    Six hours earlier his conclusion would have been correct, but early that morning the Prussian headquarters, alarmed for the safety of their line of retreat on Berlin by the presence of the French in Naumburg, decided to leave Hohenlohe and Rachel to act as rear-guard, and with the main body to commence their retreat towards the river Unstrutt and the Eckhardtsberge where Massenbach had previously reconnoitred an " ideal " battlefield.

    310

    Sometimes he would pass hours thinking of a certain illustrious lady, devising means of seeing her and of doing deeds that would win her favour; at other times the thoughts suggested by the books got the upper hand.

    311

    State school buildings can be, and sometimes are, used for religious instruction on days and at hours other than those fixed by law for ordinary school work,; but no child can be required to attend, except at the wish of its parent or guardian.

    312

    Such convicts are classified according to physical ability and a minimum rate is fixed for their hire, for not more than ten hours a day.

    313

    Such modifications of the hours of work have not only been beneficial to the men, but have improved the discipline of the staff and the punctuality and regularity of the train service, particularly in respect of the goods trains.

    314

    Summoned before the bishop's vicar, his trial was a scene of insult and clamour, ending in his being violently thrust from the court and bidden to leave the city within three hours.

    315

    Surely he hadn't planned to spend four hours on the road.

    316

    Sustained by their enthusiasm, however, the recruits displayed equal courage, and, at the end of four hours' stubborn fighting, their defence was still intact.

    317

    Take a break for a couple of hours.

    318

    Taking into account the variations in wages and in the price of wheat, it may be calculated that the number of hours of work requisite to earn a sum equal to the price of a cwt.

    319

    That gives you three hours.

    320

    That's over forty-eight hours ago.

    321

    The "Fortitude" and "Juno" kept up a cannonade for 22 hours and then hauled off, the former being on fire and having sixtytwo men killed and wounded.

    322

    The 6th Corps only was severely shaken, the 4th (the best in the whole army), though it had fought hard twice within fortyeight hours, losing nearly 30% of its strength, was still well in hand, and the 3rd, 2nd and Imperial Guards were almost intact.

    323

    The agitation had begun some fifteen years before, and the men had at various times demanded better pay and shorter hours, often with success.

    324

    The agreement had hardly been concluded when Sir Frederick Roberts arrived at the Cape with io,000 troops, and after spending forty-eight hours there returned to England.

    325

    The area he was watching was where she often saw deer in the early morning hours.

    326

    The award of the court is thus the equivalent of the determination of a special board in Victoria, and deals with the same questions, the most important of which are the minimum rates of wages and the number of working hours per week.

    327

    The best she could hope for was a few hours in his arms.

    328

    The block containing his body was built into an angle of the Fort of the Twenty-four Hours, then under construction.

    329

    The Boers had firearms, the Zulus their assegais only, and after a three hours' fight the Zulus were totally defeated, losing thousands killed, while the farmers' casualties were under 1 Captain Allen Francis Gardiner (1 79418 5 1) left Natal in 1838, subsequently devoting himself to missionary work in South America, being known as the missionary to Patagonia.

    330

    The bridle road up the mountain leaves Glen Nevis at Achintee; it has a gradient nowhere exceeding 1 in 5, and the ascent is commonly effected in two to three hours.

    331

    The canes in each case are assumed to contain 88% of juice and 12% of fibre, and the extraction by milling to be 75% of the weight of canes - the evaporative power of the factory being equal to 622 tons per 24 hours.

    332

    The canonical office was chanted throughout, but the directly religious duties of the day can hardly have taken more than 4 or 5 hours - perhaps 8 on Sundays.

    333

    The carbonic acid gas injected into the highly limed juice in the saturators is made by the calcination of limestone in a kiln provided with three cleaning doors, so arranged as to allow the lime to be removed simultaneously from them every six hours.

    334

    The case was only hours old when Betsy spotted it giving us hope for the boy's recovery and the perpetrator's arrest.

    335

    The chief points to be attended to are to have a plentiful supply of botanical drying paper, so as to be able to use about six sheets for each specimen; to change the paper at intervals of six to twelve hours; to avoid contact of one leaf or flower with another; and to increase the pressure applied only in proportion to the dryness of the specimen.

    336

    The child was at first handed over to the care of the Hours, or the nymph Melissa and the centaur Cheiron.

    337

    The Chinese divide the time of a complete revolution of the sun with regard to the solstitial points into twelve equal portions, each corresponding to thirty days, ten hours, thirty minutes.

    338

    The churning in his stomach increased as the hours passed.

    339

    The ciliated stage is only capable of free life for five or six hours, and if at the end of that time it has not encountered and attached itself to a minnow, it dies.

    340

    The clinic understands my school hours and they are willing to work around them.

    341

    The conflict about St Pierre (Lostenia) was one of the most bloody of the war; but for hours Hill maintained his ground, and finally repulsed the French before Wellington, delayed by his pontoon bridge over the Nive having been swept away, arrived to his aid.

    342

    The contest lasted for several, hours, but towards evening the fleet was obliged to retire, three of the battleships having been sunk and four others having been put out of action.

    343

    The crystallization proper lasts one hour, the working of a charge four hours, six charges being run in twenty-four hours.

    344

    The current, either continuous or alternating, is then started, and continued for about 1 to 12 hours, until the operation is complete, the carbon rods being gradually withdrawn as the action proceeds.

    345

    The delay ended up being four hours.

    346

    The distillation of 1000 lb charge lasts 5-6 hours, requires 500-600 lb coke or 30 gallons reduced oil, and yields about to% metallic zinc and I% blue powder - a mixture of finely-divided metallic zinc and zinc oxide.

    347

    The doctor says the next few hours and days will tell the difference.

    348

    The Drocourt-Queant front and support lines were thus in the hands of the Canadians after little more than four hours' fighting.

    349

    The dvornik is on duty for sixteen hours at a stretch, during which he is not allowed to sleep or even to shelter in the porch.

    350

    The effects of a bite by a poisonous snake upon a small mammal or bird are almost instantaneous, preventing its escape; and the snake swallows its victim at its leisure, sometimes hours after it has been killed.

    351

    The facts as to the position of an opponent accurately observed and correctly reported at a given moment, afford no reliable guarantee of his position 48 hours later, when the orders based on this information enter upon execution.

    352

    The finest work is excessively trying to the eyes of the plaiters, who can at most give to it two or three hours' labour daily.

    353

    The first constitutional symptoms appear in fifteen minutes to two hours.

    354

    The first rush of the assailants carried them up to the wire and other obstacles, but they were for many hours unable to advance a step farther.

    355

    The first set relate as usual to the hour of commencement, the second to the hours of occurrence of lightning causing fires.

    356

    The flight out on Friday night had been a comfortable few hours spent at thirty-odd thousand feet, sandwiched between a cloud-covered countryside and a starlit sky.

    357

    The gaggle of women grew, and she glanced at her phone, surprised at the stamina the three had to keep going for hours.

    358

    The ghost of Jeffrey Byrne, who had spent his final hours in the same dining room, was nowhere in evidence.

    359

    The grappling of the cable and raising it to the surface from a depth of 2000 fathoms seldom occupy less than twenty-four hours, and since any extra strain due to the pitching of the vessel must be avoided, it is clear that the state of the sea and weather is the predominating factor in the time necessary for effecting the long series of operations which, in the most favourable circumstances, are required for a repair.

    360

    The harbour is one of the finest natural harbours in the kingdom, and has the advantage of a double tide, the tide of the English channel giving it high water first by way of the Solent and two hours later by way of Spithead.

    361

    The heating is continued for 4 to 12 hours according to the amount of silver present; the end of the reaction is known by the absence of any hissing.

    362

    The highways were quiet on the Monday mid-morning, and they drove the three hours faster than she was expecting.

    363

    The hours passed without another scream and she was still sitting at the table when the first rays of morning light warmed the kitchen.

    364

    The invaders of Helles had secured but a precarious foothold on Ottoman soil by the morning of the 26th, twenty-four hours after starting operations; but fair progress was made by them during the course of this second day.

    365

    The iron adapters are now slipped on, and left on for two hours, when, as a matter of experience, a considerable amount of zinc has gone out of the retort, the greater part into the fire-clay adapter, the rest into the iron cone.

    366

    The journey between Algiers and Paris, from which it is distant 1031 miles, is accomplished in about forty-five hours.

    367

    The journeymen combined to protect their special interests, notably as regards hours of work and rates of wages, and they fought with the masters over the labour question in all its aspects.

    368

    The kirk-session has oversight of the congregation in regard to such matters as the hours of public worship, the arrangements for administration of the sacraments, the admission of new Members and the exercise of church discipline.

    369

    The labour statistics published by the department are exhaustive, dealing with hours of labour, the state of the labour market, the condition of the working classes and the prices of commodities; annual reports are also ' Since 1882 there have been only two occasions on which the president of the board was not included in the cabinet.

    370

    The Labour unions were able to secure in these years many concessions both as to hours and wages.

    371

    The largest amount of alcohol that can be burnt up within the healthy body in twenty-four hours is 12 oz., but it must be consumed in great dilution and divided into small doses taken every four hours.

    372

    The light of Algol remains constant during close upon 56 hours; then declines in 62 hours (approximately) to nearly one-fourth its normal amount, and is restored by sensibly the same gradations.

    373

    The longest day is 15 hours and 33 minutes, the shortest 8 hours and 50 minutes.

    374

    The men devote to the loom those hours which are not required for the cultivation of their little farms; the women spin and reel the yarn during the intervals of their other domestic occupations.

    375

    The metal is usually obtained from the flue-dust (produced during the first three or four hours working of a zinc distillation) which is collected in the sheet iron cones or adapters of the zinc retorts.

    376

    The Mexican commander, Pedro de Ampudia, demanded Taylor's withdrawal beyond the Nueces within twenty-four hours.

    377

    The most important codfishery in the world is that which has been prosecuted for centuries on the Newfoundland banks, where it is not uncommon for a single fisherman to take over Soo of these fish in ten or eleven hours.

    378

    The most terrible was that of 1746, which destroyed Callao, on the 28th of October, and there were 220 shocks in the following twenty-four hours.

    379

    The motion of the fork is maintained by the clock acting through an escapement, and the dial registers both the number Koenig's of vibrations of the fork and the seconds, minutes and Tuning-fork hours.

    380

    The museum can't open for hours, Dean asked his wife as he helped clean up the dining room.

    381

    The next change observable after some hours is that the untouched cells below the cut grow larger, push tip the dead surface, and divide by walls tangential to it, with the formation of tabloid cork-cells.

    382

    The next few hours were spent getting ready.

    383

    The observations were usually confined to a few hours of the day, very commonly between II A.M.

    384

    The only thing she had to eat since yesterday noon was a glass of milk in the wee hours of the morning.

    385

    The only time something happens is when you've been in one world more than twenty-four hours.

    386

    The Peak was abuzz with activity when Lana arrived several hours later.

    387

    The periodicity shows itself in the form of an exacerbation of the still continuing fever, and that exacerbation may take place twentyfour hours after the first onset, or the interval may be only half that period, or it may be double.

    388

    The physical ramifications of not feeding for over thirty hours commanded attention.

    389

    The pressure is increased, and the papers are changed less frequently as the specimens become dry, which usually takes place in thirty-six hours.

    390

    The process is not continuous, but a change of crucibles only takes two or three minutes under the best conditions, and only occurs every ten or fifteen hours.

    391

    The relation between integral numbers of months and years expressed by Meton's rule therefore deviates only two hours from the truth.

    392

    The remaining hours of the day were divided between work and reading, in the proportion (on the average of the whole year) of about 6 and 4 hours respectively.

    393

    The resistance offered by the Turks had been most determined, and these could reckon upon receiving welcome reinforcements within a few hours; for as soon as the situation declared itself Liman von Sanders had hurried off one of the two divisions (the 7th) at Bulair by water with orders to repair to Helles.

    394

    The responsible authorities on the spot perceived that the process of gradually removing the huge accumulations of impedimenta that were massed about the landing-places and of reembarking the troops must take place during the dark hours and step by step, every effort being made to keep the Turks unaware of what was in progress.

    395

    The return trip from Grand Junction had taken Dean twice the usual two hours, a slalom of ditched autos, snow plows, ice and stopped traffic.

    396

    The road remained in the trees and it seemed like hours before he was once again in the open and able to see the valley before him.

    397

    The satiny sheets of the bed smelled of the woman he'd made love to for hours last night.

    398

    The sloping sides of the conical bottom can be freed from the coating of scum which forms upon them every two or three hours by two rotatory scrapers, formed of L-irons, which can be slowly turned by an attendant by means of a central shaft provided with a suitable handle.

    399

    The solutions are well mixed by stirring with wooden poles, and the gold allowed to settle, the time allowed varying from 12 to 72 hours.

    400

    The spell lasts twenty four hours, but it works.

    401

    The stages of the process so far described generallyoccupy from 36 to 60 hours, and during this time the constant care and watchfulness of those attending the furnace is required.

    402

    The standard day is longer than ours, about thirty hours instead of twenty-four, with that divided evenly between day and night.

    403

    The strange fever remained, making her feel as if she'd been sitting in a sauna for hours.

    404

    The summer is almost nightless, print being legible at midnight, but in winter the days are only six hours long, though the nights are frequently illuminated with brilliant displays of the aurora borealis.

    405

    The syrup in the cistern is allowed to remain for about twelve hours, by which time the char will have absorbed all the colouring matter in it, as well as the lime.

    406

    The ten feet to the top felt like it took hours, though the sun had barely risen when she finished.

    407

    The test tube is tightly corked to prevent evaporation, and allowed to stand for some hours.

    408

    The threat of the charge had, however, induced caution on the French side, and for about two hours there was a lull in the fighting, which the Prussians utilized on their right in bringing up reinforcements through the Bois des Ognons.

    409

    The three stages together will probably have lasted six to twelve hours.

    410

    The time is two hours later in New Jersey.

    411

    The town of Ouray, while only a century and a quarter old, was rich in history and Fred O'Connor, together with a cadre of widows with similar interests, spent many hours reading Ouray's old newspapers and written accounts.

    412

    The Turkish government also levies taxes on the inhabitants of the river valley, and for this purpose, and to maintain a caravan route from the Mediterranean coast to Bagdad, maintains stations of a few zaptiehs or gens d'armes, at intervals of about 8 hours (caravan time), occupying in general the stations of the old Persian post road.

    413

    The Turks were in strong force in that quarter, and, as the hours passed and the defenders (3rd and r ith Divs.) massed, the situation became such as to render any French advance out of the question; indeed, but for the fire of the warships the troops who had landed could barely have maintained themselves.

    414

    The ultimatum required Turkish acquiescence to this course within twenty-four hours.

    415

    The Wadi Besha is a broad valley abounding with streams containing numerous hamlets scattered over a tract some six or eight hours' journey in length.

    416

    The wire ought to be so treated for many hours before it is placed in the instrument.

    417

    The wound proved mortal, and Alp Arslan expired a few hours after he received it, on the 15th of December 1072.

    418

    Their retreat having been unmolested, the Prussians were ready once more to take the field, quite twenty-four hours before Napoleon deemed it possible for the foe defeated at Ligny.

    419

    There are generally two shifts of workmen, each shift working six hours, and the work is carried on continuously from Monday morning until Friday morning.

    420

    There is ample evidence that the civil law was soon once more a favourite study at Oxford, where we learn that, in 1190, two students from Friesland were wont to divide between them the hours of the night for the purpose of making a copy of the Liber pauperum.

    421

    There young Parkman spent his leisure hours in collecting eggs, insects and reptiles, trapping squirrels and woodchucks, and shooting birds with arrows.

    422

    These laws deal with truck, employers' liability, contractors' workmen, the recovery of workmen's wages, the hours of closing in shops and merchants' offices, conspiracy amongst trade unionists, and with factories, mines, shipping and seamen..

    423

    These literary occupations solaced the hours of a life which was mostly spent in privacy.

    424

    These riotous proceedings provoked the second military expedition of the governor, and on the 16th of May 1771, with a force of about r000 men and officers, he met about twice that number of Regulators on the banks of the Alamance, where, after two hours of fighting, with losses on each side nearly equal, the ammunition of the Regulators was exhausted and they were routed.

    425

    These separators are carefully protected by non-conducting cement and wood lagging, and are closed at the top to prevent loss of heat; and they will run for many hours without requiring to be changed, the duration of the run depending on the quality of the liquor treated and amount of impurities therein.

    426

    These usually dry sandy beds, which on many maps appear rivers of imposing length, for a few hours or days following rare but violent thunderstorms, are deep and turbulent streams. The northern system consists of the Nosob and its tributaries, the Molopo and the Kuruman.

    427

    They also contributed to sacred literature themselves in the composition of new psalms. Attendance to the ordinary needs of nature was entirely relegated to the hours of darkness.

    428

    They got twenty-four hours to do something.

    429

    They had been at it for a few hours when Connor and Sarah returned home.

    430

    They seemed to walk for hours, until the first rays of morning lightened the forest.

    431

    They talked for a little while longer and then she announced that she had to bury Brutus, but she would meet them at the stable in a couple hours for the first ride.

    432

    They talked for hours about their plans together.

    433

    They walked for two hours without running into any tunnels branching off from the main one.

    434

    They were unfortunately moved from right to left, and this took many hours.

    435

    They'd have you sitting down under a hot light, spending a few hours while a gang of suits practiced twenty questions on you.

    436

    They'd sat for hours, until human-Deidre's distress faded and turned first to disbelief then hope then resolve.

    437

    This act has been the means of effecting a considerable reduction in the hours worked by railway men on certain railways, and no case has yet arisen in which a reference to the Commissioners has been necessary.

    438

    This first or cold stage of the paroxysm varies much in length; in temperate climates it lasts from one to two hours, while in tropical and subtropical countries it may be shortened.

    439

    This is found especially in plants which during certain hours of the day are unable to cover the water lost through transpiration by the supply coming from the roots.

    440

    This meant Jackson hadn't fed in 24 hours.

    441

    This order at least was precise and clear, but it was sent 12 hours too late, and when Grouchy received it he was unable to carry it out.

    442

    This place had been held by a French garrison, but had capitulated only twenty-four hours beforehand, a fact of which Napoleon was naturally unaware.

    443

    This practice continued to prevail till the 17th century, when, at the instance of the Jesuit Schall, president of the tribunal of mathematics, they adopted the European method of dividing the day into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and each minute into sixty seconds.

    444

    This was the planting of a colony of communistic per week for which such wages are payable, with the rates for overtime when those hours are exceeded.

    445

    Though her trip had taken more than two hours on the immortal side, less than an hour had passed in the mortal world.

    446

    Through the mountain passes come at times dry winds from the Pacific coast, which lick up the snow in a few hours.

    447

    Thus the Austrians gained 24 hours, and the direction of XXIV.

    448

    Tim was already on the large screen when Brady entered the comms center several hours later.

    449

    To do this the city maintained (1906) 24 flushing wagons working 2 shifts of 8 hours each per day.

    450

    To her relief, she still had a few hours to sneak out and make it to the airport.

    451

    To his function as a preacher we owe some of his most characteristic and stimulating works, especially the discourses by which it may be said he won his way to wide and influential recognition - Endeavours after the Christian Life, 1st series, 1843; 2nd series, 1847; Hours of Thought, 1st series, 1876; 2nd series, 1879; the various hymn-books he issued at Dublin in 1831, at Liverpool in 1840, in London in 1873; and the Home Prayers in 1891.

    452

    To secure this marvellous return, with an annual rainfall of 26 in., as much as 52,000,000 gallons of water are pumped per 24 hours from artesian wells on one estate alone.

    453

    To these demands the Transvaal government required an answer within 48 hours.

    454

    Today it's warm, but after you've hugged ice for a few hours in the shade, you'll be glad you took time to dress sensibly.

    455

    Travelling at the fullest speed, he reached the Tuileries on the 18th, after a journey of 312 hours.

    456

    Twelve hours and forty three souls later, Gabriel gave up on the icons.

    457

    Twenty-four hours after his hour-long downhill hike from the mine, Dean's stilts felt like he'd run a barefoot marathon on cobblestoned streets.

    458

    Twenty-four hours later the long spell of calm, a godsend to Godley and Byng, came to an end.

    459

    Two assaults were repulsed after hours of hand-to-hand fighting; and when, after a fresh bombardment, the garrison saw that their case was hopeless, they killed their women and children, and only succumbed at last to a third assault because every man of them was either killed or mortally wounded.

    460

    Two freed her a few hours later and let her walk around the room.

    461

    Two hours ago, according to the clock on the mantle.

    462

    Two hours later she was wondering if it had been a good thing after all.

    463

    Two hours remained before the last of the day's celebrations— the Jeep flare parade down the mountain, followed by a massive fireworks display—so after finishing supper, the Deans began playing catch up with Bird Song's chores.

    464

    Two years later, at the early age of 50, he died in Paris, of congestion of the lungs, after only a few hours' illness.

    465

    Two years of incessant labor with relays of artisans working steadily throughout the twenty-four hours were required to finish this piece.

    466

    Untold hours of do-it-yourself-manship and emer­gency repair had finally overcome poor septic design and general­ly shoddy workmanship to create communities of adequate com­fort and living.

    467

    Watch-towers with wooden clappers and the beacons which flashed the alarm along the whole frontier in a few hours are still features in the landscape.

    468

    We agreed the tests were finished for the day but mellowed by wine; we spent two more evening hours summarizing our findings.

    469

    We only have two hours.

    470

    We're leaving in forty-eight hours.

    471

    We've got to start moving everything within twenty-four hours, Lon told them, slinging a machine gun over his shoulder.

    472

    Well, Jonathan will be home in a couple of hours.

    473

    What have you got planned for the next couple of hours?

    474

    What was left of the force originally detailed for the landing at " V " beach contrived during the early hours by stern fighting to occupy some high ground hard by, and also to join hands with the troops landed at " W " beach.

    475

    When a solution of the strength of about i in zo is applied to the skin it produces a local anaesthesia which lasts for many hours.

    476

    When a sufficient number are not available for a two hours' defecation, it is the practice in some factories to skim off the scums that rise to the top, and then boil up the juice for a few minutes and skim again, and, after repeating the operation once or twice, to run off the juice to separators or subsiders of any of the kinds previously described.

    477

    When Felipa returned a few hours later with the children, she stared at Carmen.

    478

    When heated in air for many hours it decomposes, yielding carbon dioxide, phenol and xanthone.

    479

    When Leland Stanford, Jr., University was opened in 1891 he entered with the first class and specialized in geology and engineering, supporting himself by working at various jobs in free hours.

    480

    When the German squadron was sighted it would have been possible to fall back on the " Canopus," but this would have entailed the destruction of the " Otranto," which would have been overtaken by the enemy in two or three hours.

    481

    When the mass is quietly fusing, the crucible is heated for two hours in a wind-furnace.

    482

    While Dean remained distressed over the accident, he knew he must concentrate on the Women's Club debate just hours away.

    483

    Why don't you go back to Fairhaven and I'll be by in a few hours.

    484

    With all his devotion to study at Lausanne' (he read ten or twelve hours a day), he still found some time for the acquisition of some of the lighter accomplishments, such as riding, dancing, drawing, and also for mingling in such society as the place had to offer.

    485

    With ordinary care on the part of the men in charge Hatton defecators will work continuously for several days and nights, and the number required to deal with a given volume of juice is half the number of ordinary defecators of equal capacity which would do the same work; for it must be borne in mind that an ordinary double-bottomed defecator takes two hours to deliver its charge and be in readiness to receive a fresh charge, i.e.

    486

    With these he marched southwards to the plain of Mohacs, where, on the 29th of August, the Hungarians, after a two hours' fight, were annihilated, the king, both the archbishops, five bishops and 24,000 men perishing on the field.

    487

    With Three Hours' Exposure He Found The Thorium Emanation Only From 3 To 5% Of The Whole, But With 12 Hours' Exposure The Percentage Of Thorium Emanation Rose To About 15.

    488

    Within a couple of hours, clouds blocked the moon, and the snow began again.

    489

    Within a few minutes, Alex arrived and whisked her off for a few private hours.

    490

    Within two hours, the bridge was passable.

    491

    Yeah, he's been pacing like a madman for a couple of hours.

    492

    Yes. She'll be by in a few hours.

    493

    You and I spent hours together, for years and years.

    494

    You can fall in love with someone in a couple of hours.

    495

    You didn't seem to mind me holding you for hours last night on the beach.

    496

    You go put that ring on her finger, and I will come by her house in a few hours.

    497

    You have the cabin and it's only a few hours ride from there.

    498

    You should have been here two hours ago.

    499

    You tried to beat the shit out of Shipton only hours before and instead he damned near beat the shit out of you.

    500

    You've got a couple hours until midnight.