How To Use Hours In A Sentence

It might as well be closed, because in many American hospitals you're simply shooed from the windowsill after you've been nursed back to health (usually in 72 hours or less), and you're expected to "fly" on your own. Mark Lachs, M.D.: Care Transitions: The Hazards of Going In and Coming Out of the Hospital
He came back hours later clothes ragged, an excited look on his face.
The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
The baby was born with a heart problem and only survived for a few hours.
Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.

As it was, we spent a couple of sweltering hours there and left.
I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
Now comes the news that her shifty lawyer father has only 48 hours to raise a lot of money or face financial ruin and imprisonment.
The four of us stayed for a couple of nights in the Rest House at Takoradi, which gave us a few hours to walk the beaches and paddle in the ocean, and to luxuriate in the fresh sea breezes after the heavy atmosphere of the interior.
The rest of the explanation seeps out gradually as midnight melts into the early hours. Times, Sunday Times
In the early hours of New Year's Day, she said, Webb visited her home and smashed windows in her front door.
It explains why some people must have a full eight hours' kip while others get away with half that. The Sun
They spent many hours searching in commercial databases, looking for abstracts and full-text articles.
They talked, feasted for hours on rich Italian food, and drank heavily - all for free.
‘I'm sure the retained men are not valued as highly but they work 12 hours and then are on call - if those bleepers go then they have to race to the station, perhaps to save someone's life,’ he said.
They must have needed the aspirins after five hours of that.
The commander-in-chief was given 36 hours to secure a withdrawal of his troops from the combat zone.
We were kept on tenterhooks for hours while the judges chose the winner.
In a matter of hours, the Bay area was completely depleted of pumps, splashboards and self-bailers.
Spoon the mixture into a pudding basin and chill for at least two hours.
The jobs are ideal for stay-at-home parents as you can earn from 150 per week working just three hours a day. The Sun
The fans certainly looked like they didn't have a care in the world as they lay in their hundreds sunning themselves on the grassy slopes surrounding the stadium in the hours before the game.
They described ‘torture techniques’ and claimed that detainees had been forced into painful positions for 18 to 24 hours at a time or left to foul themselves.
I was working all hours and constantly fretting about everyone else's problems.
Eventually after three hours four beltmen had reached us and the rescue was completed.
He'd missed the acres of newsprint and hours of broadcasts. Times, Sunday Times
At first I was minded to send a boat after them, but by this time the rafts were a good two miles beyond the harbour, and Mrs. Purchase said, 'No, they can do no good, poor dears; let them have their few hours' pleasure. ' Shining Ferry
As for you, the membership, many of you have offered an ear to listen, time to reflect, and many hours of friendship and support.
Bobileff and crew fettled and cajoled and fairly bullwhipped the old beast back together, then fired her up and into a transporter just hours before the show.
The Stabat Mater has been retained as an optional Sequence for September 15 in the reformed Roman Missal and as the hymn for the Office of Readings, Morning Prayer, and Evening Prayer in the new Liturgy of Hours. Archive 2009-04-01
The tips on rounding hours to the next quarter-hour or tenth-hour and dropping your own VBA procedure into a formula were most ingenious.
Roughly two hours after they begin, Ralph, Begoña, and thirteen others are still dicing carrots into tiny cubes. The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce. News from The Scientist
A constant tinkerer, Paul spent hours developing recording tricks like over-dubbing and guitar effects like reverb.
After having accepted the invite, two hours before the start of the game he phoned me to say he wasn't coming.
We only walked for four hours today because of the intense heat and steep incline. The Sun
Even after hours of non-stop dancing into the wee hours, most people find that they are rejuvenated and full of energy.
She just catnapped for 20 minutes to an hour at a time * all day and all night* for a total of 8 or so hours in a 24-hour cycle. Snap | Her Bad Mother
About two hours after De Forest made his report, Green came in and reported that according to orders he had "shadowed" De Forest and Mrs. Maroney when they drove into the city. The Expressman and the Detective
You got a big hefty looking bloke who looked like he could handle himself in a barney, put him and a bunch of like mates out on the streets at all hours of the day and night as a visible presence.
Some workers on zero-hours contracts are happy with them. Times, Sunday Times
He likes to bat and five hours was just a teaser. Times, Sunday Times
The energy charge, measured in kilowatt-hours, is for the actual electricity that is used by the facility.
The polls were kept open an extra four hours because the turnout was so high. The Sun
Petrocelli Monday afternoon began an aggressive cross-examination after Simpson finished five hours of gentle questioning by his own lawyer Friday and Monday.
Their show consists of two hours of adult side-splitting comedy and brilliant live music.
It took two hours and 70 stitches to sew it back on. The Sun
Now he needs only two credit hours to graduate.
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As this was during school hours, the junior members could not take part.
Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
Actually the great bit about the DVD compendium isn't the re-watching; it's watching six episodes back to back in little more than two hours.
Thirty-six hours before his execution, Tennessee judges voted to reconsider his case.
The partial phase of such an eclipse lasts for much longer, some hours.
Soft materials such as frits may require only 2-3 hours, whereas hard materials like quartz can take 24 hours or more. 8. Preparation of glazes
At least when you are home you can sit in your own Cadillacs for hours in the rush traffic and pollute the air as much you like, destroying the ozone layer and blame it on us smokers.
This year has seen a great increase in online and telephone betting, which allows people to make wagers 24 hours a day.
Paul described how surgeons formed a new thumb on his right hand from the big toe on the foot that they had amputated hours earlier.
He had used the last of the Pampers at a rest stop five hours before. TOGETHER ALONE
I was disappointed to see very few (if any) contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings.
As is known, the ergonomic norm for continuous operation by command staff at a command and control station is five to seven hours.
The new aircraft will also allow pilots to increase their flying hours from 150 to 200 because of the aircraft's higher operating ceiling.
After two hours her patience gave out.
You can put the 'blackie' up in some quarter of the house where he can move about at will without disturbing any of your own servants, and can get in and out at all hours; he will be useful, you know, in prowling about the grounds at night and ascertaining if the lady really does go to bed when she retires to her room. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
I wish they would hurry up their work, otherwise I have to work extra hours with them.
Most restaurants and farms have converse hours.
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Thirdly, despite working crazy hours I seemed to have all the ingredients needed for this particular tart without budging an inch.
I spent many hours mindlessly banging a tennis ball against the wall.
My children could spend hours watching playful monkeys at the primate exhibit.
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Working hours must not exceed 42 hours a week.
Had it not been cold and wet it would have been a kinda fun day, if your idea of fun is standing still by a roundabout for nine hours.
A spellbinding four hours of voices, intelligent interviews and specialists. Times, Sunday Times
Teachers insist that prep classes with 25 pupils or more require an aide for 30 hours in term 1 and 25 hours for the rest of the year.
On oxygen 24-hours-a-day, the 54-year-old suffers from cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis.
They bogled and butterflied to pumping dancehall rhythms until the wee hours of the morning. Larger Than Lyfe
The rugged terrain to be negotiated and the 32-km distance to be slogged from Eravikulam hut to Konalar fishing hut at a lower altitude of 1,889 m made the members sweat out in just five hours.
One reason for the easing in the logjam was the Senate's traditional desire to dispense with blocs of nominees shortly before adjourning for recess, which the Senate did in the early hours of Friday morning. Federal Posts Fill Up Amid Senate Thaw
The company also caters breakfast or lunch every week and funds other periodic after-hours activities such as karting, shooting, paintball. Jobs.joelonsoftware.com
Every day we rough-house or play tag for a half hour, and on weekends we play for hours, walk around the mall or go to the park.
For three hours a mysterious cloud of acrid smoke hovered over some of London's busiest streets. Times, Sunday Times
In October he issued a report to the police estimating a post-mortem interval of 24 hours.
After about two hours of tweets mentioning the lay-off, Philip Brasher broke the silence, also with a tweet: "Saddest part: DM Register opened bureau nearly 80 yrs ago to cover ag policy when Wallace became ag secy. Paula Crossfield: Why Laying Off Ag Reporter Philip Brasher Is Bad for Food
Now, whenever I go out on the porch I remember how rusty and pitted the railings used to look and how it bothered me, and the several hours I spent sandpapering it smooth, then the three coats of brown Rustoleum I applied, and now I'm watching it get whiter and cleaner with every new layer of paint I apply. A Productive Day
What occurred in the hours and days beforehand must be considered. The Sun
Then I came back, raced home from the airport Sunday afternoon and worked for eight hours straight.
But despite the best efforts of his closest aides, it was not until two hours later that the Pope finally relented, the report said.
They would let whole milk stand for several hours until the lighter cream rose to the top.
they spend hours and hours just playing the slots
He stood there for hours that night and stared into something he knew would make him a meaningless cipher in its light, make him ambiguous, coagulant dust in relationship to the size of a thing he could never comprehend, only quiver to imagine. Southern Cross
Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. RVM
The opening ceremony was precipitously cancelled just 24 hours before the event.
A federal investigator was on campus within 48 hours after news broke about the scandal.
We had to spend hours filling in forms.
This is a taut, tense and thrilling two hours, supercharged with some serious star power. The Sun
So we've actually put in place a helpline, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for people to call, where they'll get professional assistance from people who are trained counsellors.
When making bread with the fermented dough, the dough must be removed from the fridge at least 2 hours in advance, to allow it to prove.
It was unacceptable that anxious patients should wait for hours in crowded accident and emergency departments.
He is a workaholic who puts in 14 to 15 hours a day and has a meticulous eye for detail.
The volunteers fasted overnight, or for six hours after a light breakfast if the study was carried out in the afternoon.
At the end of six hours, and late at night, we passed to the right, the ruins of an ancient city standing on the declivity of the mountain and still bearing its original name Amata (Arabic). Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
Eight hours after admission he suddenly deteriorated, with severe respiratory distress and increasing left chest signs.
The other canonical hours have short lessons called capitula, originally lectiunculœ, sometimes capitella. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
The participants and production crew moved to Oxley Downs, six hours drive from Sydney to the property with 12 buildings, a dilapidated garden, horses, chickens, geese, a cow and 1.300 merino sheep.
In yesterday's closed-door meeting of the defense committee, lawmakers with the committee reached agreement after several hours' discussion on unfreezing the two budgets.
For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work. Doug Larson
Longer working hours have combined with security fears which have made many parents reluctant to let children play unsupervised in the garden or visit public places without a harness.
And pachinko is a national obsession, the parlours offering gaudy arrays of noisy pinball machines where many Japanese contentedly gamble the hours away.
Insiders said the move was 'a matter of hours' away last night. The Sun
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
I can assure readers that a piece of spaghetti that has festered in the bottom of a sink for 24 hours looks much the same.
How many hours' sleep do you need?
For more than two hours these two teams had the entire world watching in awe and wonder. The Sun
And when I had been asleep scarce six hours, I waked again very sudden, as I had done before, and had belief that something did be anigh unto me; and I gript the Diskos, and did hearken; yet was there no sound that mine ears did wot of; neither aught that had power to be surely known of the spirit. The Night Land
And the one faint hope that soothed his troubled dreams was one he dared not cherish in his hours of waking. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
We were given the run of a sauna (which had a tea room) and access to a swimming pool for three hours, for the princely sum of $25.
Sisko strolled along the path as it weaved through colorful, variegated flowerbeds, trying to let his surroundings bolster his mood further in his last few hours on Bajor. Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire
The Prime Minister faces anxious hours before the votes are counted tomorrow night.
Some waited 10 and 12 hours for a morsel of meat. Times, Sunday Times
They let the crowd throught the entrances 2 hours before the football match started.
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Semi-structured interviews took place in a private room in the hospital ward, usually within 12 hours after each restraint event.
Though a bodyboard is slippery, hours of rubbing can cause rashes.
The irregular working hours and long gaps between jobs meant I had lots of time for boyfriends.
I am a highly educated, successful career woman who finally realized that we women are getting ripped off by the current culture and the educational establishment who is brainwashing us into a life of hectic, unfulfilling work in stuffy cubicles working long, stressful hours to earn enough so that we can "relax" on a beach somewhere. Get in on Life...
Twenty-four hours after leaving Waller's, I was sipping a single malt by my own fireside in Hampshire.
It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.
They worked ten or twelve hours breaking rocks and stones for roadmaking and repairing, carrying heavy loads, performing superhuman tasks. Rebecca Sieff.
Some 200 hours of footage have been edited down to the less than two hours that make up the completed film.
Over the next 7 hours, fuels technicians filled and emptied seven fuel bowsers without further incident.
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After four hours afloat, the gorge narrowed to some two hundred yards. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
He accepted the situation, happy in the gentle and protecting affection the girl showed him, fitfully enough, for she had, as she called it, her bad days when she used to visit her mother and remain long hours in the riverside hut, coming out as inscrutable as ever, but with a contemptuous look and a short word ready to answer any of his speeches. Almayer's Folly
The American will go home and his leisure hours are more important. Times, Sunday Times
The demonstrators were mostly schoolchildren given the day off, army conscripts and public employees encouraged to go on the march in their working hours. Times, Sunday Times
Most of it, however, had escaped into the atmosphere as heated gas and likely would not recondense for several hours. Harbinger
Nottingham Crown Court heard that staff, in threadbare butchers' aprons, worked into the early hours to fillet carcasses which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption.
Hours: Noon to 8 p. m. Tuesday through Friday. 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. Saturday.
She was astonished to find that she had only four hours' contact time in her first term. Times, Sunday Times
When I mentioned that I couldn't quite see that it was the lack of thrift, the intemperance, and the depravity of a half-starved child of six that made it work twelve hours every night in a Southern cotton mill, these sisters of Judy O'Grady attacked my private life and called me an "agitator" -- as though that, forsooth, settled the argument. Revolution, and Other Essays
Gavin Chapman came in with an overall time of four hours, twenty five minutes and nine seconds.
A wonderfully eerie musical score accompanies the two youngsters as they pound miles of wet roads for hours on end, experiencing nothing but uncertainty at every turn.
You switch the light off at night and you have ten hours on your own. Times, Sunday Times
Having four or more drinks within two hours shocks the immune system into the process. The Sun
It's important not to pass urine for at least four hours - and sometimes overnight - before a urine sample is taken.
Traffic was tied up for three hours because of the parade.
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Day and night changes are shown in line with the story line; even the morning maps are lighter than the eevning hours. Archive 2008-06-01
How many hours' sleep do you need?
Two and half hours later, the call ended, and after completing some pre-nite-nite activities (filling of the water bottle, nibbing of the snacks, brushing of the teefies), I snorgled up in bed with the dogs. Haloaskew Diary Entry
And both average hourly earnings and average weekly hours worked rose. Times, Sunday Times
Within hours, realising that he may have gone too far, the victim handed himself in.
We've been doing this tedious plod for almost five hours, and I think about hypothermia.
The beans contain soluble fibre and will keep you feeling full for hours. Times, Sunday Times
Then, when the attack did come, confusion reigned supreme - and not just in the initial minutes, but for hours, days and years.
The main drawback of the technology is that the batteries are bulky and only last a few hours.
The hours of liberty are long, full of wonder and narrow escapes, precautions, hidden devices and daring.
Typical lab tests can take hours (if not days) to analyze, process, and confirm a specific biological agent, and that's only if the lab knows exactly what antigen it's looking for.
Configuring software on our servers used to take 120 man-hours.
Horae (Hours), and Eunomia (Order), Dike (Justice), and blooming Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
He surfs the Internet for hours at a time.
Hours after the ambassador was recalled, Saba said Mr. bin Jassem sent a letter to his Yemeni counterpart, Abu Bakr al-Qurbi, to clarify Qatar's position.
Within hours a terse reply had been dispatched across Ireland's second city. Times, Sunday Times
The game ended a few hours too early, leaving players and spectators unsatisfied.
Clubbers bopped on the open air, split-level dance floor until the early hours of the morning.
In fact my whole being was permeated by the leaden-armed pervading weakness one feels when forced to work in the small hours.
She trusted Mitch with her life, and they spent many hours together, both happy and sad.
Several hours after the crash, the building still was smouldering, with black smoke hanging in the air.
That far north, the moon the midnight sun for 24 hours around the clock.
A calf that spends the early hours of life licking a dirty udder and hind legs of a cow trying to find a teat is more likely to succumb to disease than a calf in a clean environment that got an early feed of quality colostrum.
So with that we called up the Hottopic in Orland Square mall, only to get a busy signal for over two hours of constant redialing. Twilight Lexicon » Twilight Tour Continues
He added: ‘To have your work of 25 years trashed publicly in a few hours is not easy to take.’
Mr Fournier will spend around three hours ascending in an enclosed lightweight gondola before deflating the balloon and parachuting back to earth in six minutes and 25 seconds.
Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.
All the hours from 8: 30 to 4: 30 were chock-full of classes for the first time in two semesters.
Our goal is for the spectators to be entertained for four hours not only by the racing, but also by the raceway.
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The claimants sought to recover overtime pay in respect of the time they spent dealing with informants outside their normal hours. Times, Sunday Times
Looking at the time elapsed, it is at least 30 hours. Times, Sunday Times
This friend - who in an ironic twist of fate, appears in the film not as a gambler, but as the casino manager - would sneak down to the casino, after hours, and start playing with feverous intensity.
In this city the Markets were held open twenty-four hours a day to better serve the people who worked wildly different shifts throughout the levels of the city.
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The junior deckhand on duty had fallen asleep, chronically fatigued after his eight hours' sleep in the previous 24 hours were broken into three periods.
Last June, the 35-year-old had to crawl, slide and drag himself down the mountain for 10 hours to get back to base camp.
A jury in the Supreme Court in Hobart reached its majority verdicts after deliberating for about three hours.
It takes nearly two hours to reach the bottom at a depth of just over 3, 000 meters.
Yet as I pack a bag to hold water and umbrellas and tissue paper, I'm quite aware that the three hours will not feel like that.
The bad weather started a little after noon yesterday, a steady patter of sleet that lasted for hours, but didn't accumulate.
Severe vomiting, diarrhoea, rectal tenesmus: unable to keep standing, she urinates under herself; the pupils are dilated, the eyes haggard; complete mind-blindness, near-total failure of reflexes, deep unconsciousness, breathing dyspneic, heart-beat faint and very fast, pulse barely perceptible; dead in thirty-six hours. Charles Richet - Nobel Lecture
She lay in about 3 hours before the birth of the baby.
However, UK scientists will be involved in spectroscopic analysis from two hours after the impact when the telescopes in Australia come online.
A few hours later Benjamin shook me awake.
They are also massively supported by volunteers who undertake thousands of hours of unpaid labour. Times, Sunday Times
Thus 12 hours after waking you will feel worse than you thought imaginable.
‘It's just a matter of hours before she gives birth,’ Dominic Moss says excitedly as he peers at the bontebok's swollen belly.
He waited for what seemed to be hours before the priest came up the creaking, lopsided ladder.
Sixteen hours later, cells from both groups were subjected to OGD for 6 hrs, fixed under hypoxia, the nuclei were Hoechst-stained and then scored (in a blinded fashion) for presence of either a normal vs pyknotic / mis-shapen / condensed morphology. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair. Steve Martin
Do not undertake strenuous exercise for a few hours after a meal to allow food to digest.

How To Use Hours In A Sentence

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