Hours
Meanings and phrases
hours
- a period of time assigned for work
- an indefinite period of time
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- time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; day; twenty-four hour period; 24-hour interval; solar day; mean solar day
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- Its effects can last from a few hours to six days.
- Rounds can last anywhere from a few hours to a day.
- A few hours later, Farrell withdrew his nomination.
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- The event was broken up by police two hours later.
- Several hours later, the storm became a hurricane.
- Zilwa was released without charge 48 hours later.
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- Its emergency department operates 24 hours a day.
- Their status of trading 24 hours a day was retained.
- It broadcasts 24 hours a day, on 92.1 in the FM band.
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- Fueling was completed by three hours before launch.
- The Short Program occurred hours before the bombing.
- Their peak activity occurs around 3–4 hours before dawn.
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- A sniper duel began and continued for several hours.
- He also spent several hours a day painting.
- For several hours he walks in circles, as if he was lost.
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- The collision took place in the early hours around 2am.
- Falfemont Farm was captured in the early hours of 7 September.
- Alexander died on June 11, 323 BC, in the early hours of the morning.
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- He would practice for three to six hours per day.
- These programs add up to approximately 16 hours per week.
- So Aalen is above the German average of 1550 hours per year.
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- He died in the morning hours of January 27, 2012.
- Its performance time is the morning hours.
- They arrived at Kvam in the early morning hours of the 25th.
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- It took four and a half hours to resolve 400 laps.
- Race organizer Metzgen finished in 30 and a half hours.
- It takes one and half hours from these stations to the top.
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- Some trains at peak hours branch off here for Stratford.
- Some trains during peak hours still terminate at this station.
- Additional services from Reading terminate at Shalford in peak hours.
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- The two men spent long hours praying in the church.
- Their long hours together sparked a romance.
- They are made to work long hours for little or no money."
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- For many hours, the high water levels persisted.
- Complete digestion of a snail can take many hours, even days.
- Experiments take from a few minutes, to many hours to complete.
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- They arrived at Kvam in the early morning hours of the 25th.
- The NRB Network on DirecTV plays Worship during the early morning hours.
- The edifice burned entirely in the early morning hours of March 24, 1861.
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- Their working hours and wages are regulated by industry awards.
- flexible working hours for parents.
- In the 1970s, wages of East Berliners rose and working hours fell.
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- Notably, it has exceeded the milestone of 400,000 flight hours.
- He had 4,710 flight hours, including 3,082 hours on the CRJ-100.
- It had accrued a total of 188 flight hours and 136 flight cycles.
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- The program aired for three hours each Saturday and Sunday.
- Collectively, MCC crews contribute more than 90,000 work hours each year.
- Training is done in small groups of 4 people in two sessions of 3–4 hours each.
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- A few hours later, Farrell withdrew his nomination.
- AU troops reportedly followed suit a few hours later.
- Albert died from his wounds a few hours later.
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- He would practice for three to six hours per day.
- Initially, Al Manar would broadcast only five hours per day.
- In 1994, service was still provided 16 hours per day on average.
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- Luers was taken back into custody within hours.
- An "urgent" case must be treated within hours.
- The Fox News story fell apart within hours.
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- The site is open to visitors during the daylight hours.
- The Mellowdrome is outside and open during daylight hours.
- "Horace A. Bass" also conducted shore bombardments during daylight hours.
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- In rush hours there is express service to the Loop.
- During rush hours, cars left that terminus every 15 seconds.
- are often congested during rush hours.
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- However, he was re-arrested twelve hours later.
- De-icing fluid had an effective time of twelve hours.
- Roughly twelve hours later, Hoyle was found by a search dog.
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- These programs add up to approximately 16 hours per week.
- Domestic and certain other workers could work 56 hours per week.
- It was founded in June 2003 and operated only a few hours per week.
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- He performed over 1,000 hours of community service.
- Both were sentenced to 50 hours of community service.
- In December 2015 he was sentenced to do 50 hours of community service.
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- Lancaster High School has three bands that rehearse during school hours.
- On May 21, during school hours, students again assembled near the school.
- The fire was discovered in the back part of the building during school hours.
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- She was held for ten hours and released with a caution.
- With ten hours until the gas runs out, they look for solutions.
- Bacon is often smoked with various wood fuels for up to ten hours.
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- The trading floor is now open six hours a week.
- Three hours a week of Judaism is also taught.
- She trains 12 hours a week.
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- Corporations colluded to increase the work week and the number of hours in the workday.
- There was a decrease in wages, in the number of jobs, and in the number of hours worked.
- The Bolshevik Soviet Russian forces entered Tighina and held the town for a number of hours.
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- Bowden is a master navigator with more than 4,500 flying hours.
- The Concorde airframe was designed for a life of 45,000 flying hours.
- Over his 30 years of flying, General Eaker accumulated 12,000 flying hours as pilot.
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- The train served the following stations: On working days, the train ran every two hours.
- It is operated by First Greater Manchester and runs every two hours Monday–Saturday daytime.
- On that date, service between Hoboken and Summit was cut back to once every two hours on weekends.
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- Tickets reportedly sold out just hours after they went on sale.
- His last stand came on 23 September 1917, just hours after his 48th victory.
- The blaze took place just hours before Aldine High School's annual Homecoming dance.
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- Some trains during peak hours still terminate at this station.
- Trains operate every 2 minutes during peak hours and every 4 minutes at other times.
- Baggage X-Ray machines are located at each station, and may be manned during peak hours.
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- Alza also opened up its store hours during the weekend.
- The story takes place over the span of a few hours during one night.
- It covered 190 nautical miles in 14 hours during a passage to Antwerp.
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- It gave a rotation period of hours with a brightness variation of 0.43 in magnitude ().
- The light-curve gave a rotation period of hours with a brightness variation of 0.18 magnitude ().
- Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of hours with a brightness variation of 0.13 magnitude ().
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- Collectively, MCC crews contribute more than 90,000 work hours each year.
- The maximum number of work hours before a minimum break of 10 hours is taken is 13.
- The act sought to regulate the workday of apprentices by restricting work hours to 12 per day.
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- Finally, a couple of hours later, Tembin started picking up track speed.
- The Polish frontier was suddenly just a couple of hours walk to the east.
- Callers are known to call a couple of hours before the show is on-air to be put on hold.
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- The Mellowdrome is outside and open during daylight hours.
- "Horace A. Bass" also conducted shore bombardments during daylight hours.
- Oviposition occurs within 24 hours of mating, usually during daylight hours.
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- are often congested during rush hours.
- Some trains use Platform 1 as the terminus during rush hours in weekdays.
- Platform 2 serves as the terminus for some interval trains during rush hours in weekdays.
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- Her paternal grandfather, Jacob, died a few hours before she was born.
- The mushrooms are short-lived, usually lasting only for a few hours before collapsing.
- It surfaced on the internet a few hours before the official release date on February 17.
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- They typically only feed on carrion in the late evening hours and at night.
- The Ora is a south wind, which starts at noon and blows until the early evening hours.
- In the early morning and evening hours there can also be blue and ochre tones as well.
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- It will take a student more hours to learn because of the vocabulary.
- Late trains often add more hours to today's schedules, most often caused by freight delays.
- Two or more hours of therapy per week in acute and post-acute stages produced the greatest results.
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- Most videos take a few hundred hours to complete.
- The video took Blais 60 hours to complete.
- Experiments take from a few minutes, to many hours to complete.
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- It can be visited during opening hours of the museum.
- The mill can be visited during opening hours of the museum.
- The tjasker can be visited during opening hours of the museum.
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- These walks are approximately 1–2 hours long.
- At three hours long, it was the longest of Lynch's films.
- It is 2 hours long and more than 300 artist perform on this show.
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- They found that the single bridge over the swamp had been burned two hours earlier.
- About three hours earlier, the JTWC had also upgraded the storm to tropical cyclone status.
- The quake lasted for over a minute and had been preceded by a foreshock three hours earlier at 8.15 pm.
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- He set a lifetime best of 2:10:44 hours when sixth at the Fukuoka Marathon.
- "We hadn't been in the air more than two hours when we saw our first carcass.
- American control ceased at the camp at 17:45 hours when overrun by PAVN troops.
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- The winner of the race, Amini Fonua, broke the Pacific Games record he set six hours prior.
- If the patient chooses to have the sedation, they can’t eat or drink 4–6 hours prior to the procedure.
- Joe DiMaggio took Marilyn Monroe on a stroll at the park in the hours prior to their marriage at City Hall.
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- This station operates only during the daytime hours.
- The staffers who did not stay on 96.1 moved to fill daytime hours on 100.7.
- ET241 and ET245 are 12-hour ambulances, that only operate during the daytime hours.
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- It left the ship adrift for two hours without propulsion.
- The E-8C can fly a mission profile for 9 hours without refueling.
- Indeed, the very first program may very well run for hours without needing access to a peripheral.
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- A lot of things have been thrown in the trash, hours of work."
- In 2004, he had a job in a factory earning $1 for ten hours of work.
- This could turn 20 hours of work into 15 minutes and allowed for more creativity.
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- The program involves 75 credit hours.
- One term, his course load was 25 credit hours – about two thirds more than normal.
- Each course consists of 3 credit hours in total, with total of 15 credit hour in a semester.
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- "It was four hours every time they put on the makeup."
- 12% of public transit riders ride for more than 2 hours every day.
- 31% of public transit riders, ride for more than 2 hours every day.
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- Gdańsk averages 1,700 hours of sunshine per year.
- Cape Town receives 3,100 hours of sunshine per year.
- Cardiff has 1518 hours of sunshine during an average year (Wales 1388.7 hours).
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- Doc Barker was hit in the head and died several hours later.
- He died several hours later.
- He surrendered several hours later, after freeing the passengers and crew.
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- The crankshaft had 20 hours of flight time on it at the time of failure.
- He had logged 16,000 hours of flight time when he left Air France in 1957.
- The first Sport Jet built crashed on takeoff after logging 23.8 hours of flight time.
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- Lancaster High School has three bands that rehearse during school hours.
- On May 21, during school hours, students again assembled near the school.
- The fire was discovered in the back part of the building during school hours.
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- Meanwhile, in a country village a few hours away from the capital, a different story is unfolding.
- The closest major airports are Haneda Airport and Narita International Airport, both about two hours away.
- With Halloween just hours away, the witch desperately tries to tug and pull on the pumpkin, but to no avail.
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- KNLS is on the air each day for 13 hours each day in English, Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese.
- For about six hours each day, students drew from a model who remained in the same pose for one week.
- The film explores the life of an individual with two identities; each functional for 12 hours each day.
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- During the overnight hours when the subway is not running, an on-street transfer between buses is required.
- No injuries occurred in that incident, as the collapse was in the overnight hours, with very little traffic on the freeway.
- This programming no longer airs on the station as of 2009; the station now produces its own programming during the overnight hours.
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- Adams returned downstream, and Barnette had his first visitors only hours later.
- He fled to Switzerland in 1939, escaping only hours before the border was closed.
- Executions aiming at the extermination of the Polish population started only hours after the invasion.
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- The station's digital signal is multiplexed: KUAN broadcasts 10 hours of locally produced newscasts each week.
- KETK-TV produces 12½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 2½ hours on weekdays) for Fox-affiliated sister station KFXK-TV.
- KVLY broadcasts 21½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with four hours each weekday, one hour on Saturdays and a half-hour on Sundays).
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- Outside operating hours, Jak FM plays automated music.
- In 1938, it acquired the operating hours of a Rhode Island station that never signed on.
- During operating hours there are between four and six journeys per hour in each direction.
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- The tickets sold out within two hours of being on sale.
- There, they were told to exit the city within two hours.
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- Meanwhile, a regional through express runs every three hours between Hof and Munich.
- Mawbray is served by a local bus service, running every couple of hours between Silloth and Maryport.
- The typical off-peak service (from December 2006) is one train every two hours between and (extended to on Sundays).
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- The basic hours of operation are from early morning to evening.
- Their hours of operation are generally within 30 mins of sunrise and sunset, weather permitting.
- The store generated a volume of $280,000 (around £140,000 GBP) in its first 6 hours of operation.
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- Volunteers are available at all hours.
- Strip clubs can operate at all hours, depending on regulations and revenue.
- Hispid cotton rats are mainly nocturnal, but activity has been observed at all hours.
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- Beckham reportedly spent hours practising his free kicks after training sessions had ended.
- He spent hours dealing with Wittgenstein's various phobias and his frequent bouts of despair.
- After flying to San Francisco for a recipe for sourdough bread, he came home and spent hours preparing loaves.
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- The atrium containing Eartha is open to the public during business hours.
- Therapeutic adult daycare may provide respite care during business hours five days a week.
- Third, he argues reducing business hours to eight hours a day would not reduce the sales of consumer goods by one-third, as some insist.
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- Congress didn't dare to protest, and the laws were passed in a matter of hours.
- The vessel was specifically designed with capabilities to load and unload within a matter of hours.
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- D Line service hours are approximately from 5:00 AM until 12:45 AM daily.
- B Line service hours are approximately from 5:00 AM until 12:45 AM daily.
- Gold Line service hours are approximately from 5:00 AM until 12:15 AM daily.
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- Any hours worked beyond these will entitle the employee to overtime.
- There was a decrease in wages, in the number of jobs, and in the number of hours worked.
- Analysis showed that work duration, overtime, and number of hours worked per week significantly affected the number of errors.
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- The blaze took place just hours before Aldine High School's annual Homecoming dance.
- Both groups organized just hours before Mohammed Abu Khdeir was kidnapped and murdered.
- Madison replied with his full approbation and signature on June 26, 1836, just hours before his death the following day.
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- DZEM operates 20 hours daily from 4:00 AM to 12:00 MN.
- It operates 24 hours daily.
- They did so, spending two hours daily on her therapy for more than 10 years.
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- So Aalen is above the German average of 1550 hours per year.
- Gorski Kotar also receives the least sunlight—1,700 hours per year on average.
- The sunshine duration is about 1800 hours per year, which averages 4.93 hours per day.
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- It is open daily during daylight hours only, since there are no lights on the path.
- The station broadcasts during daytime hours only, and is owned by Spotlight Broadcasting of New Orleans, LLC.
- , the following train services call at this station: This service continues towards Enschede during weekday peak hours only.
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- Branch's brigade fared no better, losing 401 men in two hours of fighting.
- After three and a half hours of fighting, William finally called off the assault.
- After another three hours of fighting, Major Madison issued a formal declaration of surrender.
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- The line was closed for several hours following the incident.
- Blood levels are only useful more than six hours following the last dose.
- A coup d'état was announced six hours following Conté's death on 22 December 2008.
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- In 2017, India restricted TV advertisements for condoms to between the hours of 10PM to 6AM.
- Most commercial television stations sign on between the hours of 4:00 AM and 5:00 AM every morning.
- Restaurants often open at 7:30 pm for dinner, and stop taking orders between the hours of 10:00 pm and 11:00 pm.
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- NSG commandos based in Mehram Nagar, Palam Airport, Delhi took 10 hours to reach the sites.
- Generally trains took roughly two hours to reach downtown and dinner was served in the dining car.
- The NSG commandos based in Delhi also met criticism for taking ten hours to reach the three sites under attack.
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- This intensity was sustained for several hours before the storm began to slowly weaken early on October 27.
- The Japanese guards were surprised, and the bridge was secured for several hours before reinforcements arrived.
- If the engine comes in for inspection or repair "hot", the unit may need to cool for several hours before repairs can begin.
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- Morris later returned to Plainfield, this time staying for almost a year, conducting hundreds of hours of interviews.
- A genuine Lefkara lace with full embroidery can take typically hundreds of hours to be made, and that is why it is usually priced quite high.
- WOM's official site notes: «Recorded in a church on analog equipment, Mannah is the result of hundreds of hours of subsequent digital editing and mixing.
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- Cagle had 4,300 hours of flying time by the time the program started.
- By 7 February 1944, pilots at Luke had achieved a million hours of flying time.
- When it was delivered to Si Fly, the plane had 25,000 hours of flying time in July.
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- He recorded eleven video tapes containing approximately two hours of footage each.
- Parvez Sharma filmed 400 hours of footage in countries ranging from Iraq to Pakistan.
- Producers filmed 2,500 to 3,000 hours of footage for the nine 43-minute episodes of the first season.
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- 12% of public transit riders ride for more than 2 hours every day.
- 31% of public transit riders, ride for more than 2 hours every day.
- 27% of public transit riders, ride for more than 2 hours every day.
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- KVLY broadcasts 21½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with four hours each weekday, one hour on Saturdays and a half-hour on Sundays).
- KETK-TV presently broadcasts 26½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 4½ hours each weekday and two hours each on Saturdays and Sundays).
- WSPA-TV presently broadcasts 36 hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with six hours each weekday and three hours each on Saturdays and Sundays).
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- Platt cancelled his office hours on the May 3 due date on short notice.
- Wallace also teaches and provides medical care outside of his office hours.
- They did not have children, neither kept regular office hours, and they had ample money.
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- A very illustrative use case is the automatic switch-off of a percent of base stations during the night hours.
- Made completely by hand, 6 daylight hours and 6 night hours slowly move around the watch face with the seasons.
- Because transpiration takes place during the cooler, more humid night hours, water loss is significantly reduced.
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- The station offered 15.5 hours of service daily.
- The Atlanta Woman's Club members donated 568,000 hours of service to the defense effort.
- A senior companion must be 55 years of age and able to give between 5 and 40 hours of service per week.
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- On election day, voting was extended for three hours due to long queues.
- Local volunteer firefighters were trapped in place for several hours due to the flooding.
- The JTWC announced that the storm would start weakening rapidly within 12 hours due to land interaction.
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- His last hours were said to have been "peaceful and free of pain."
- Survivors of the "Titanic" reported very little about Stead's last hours.
- Later, Mentor joined in the attempt to cure Captain Mar-Vell of cancer, and attended Mar-Vell's last hours.