Hour example sentences

A football match is generally over in an hour-and-a-half of playing time.These cells divide once in approximately every 24 hours (Figureure 1).While the earthquake cannot be predicted in advance, it is possible to give a three-hour notice of a potential tsunami.For an hour the hail rained on the house, the garden, the hillside, the cornfield, on the whole valley.The streets thronged with people raising slogans about bread, wages, better hours and democracy.The atmosphere prevents the sudden increase in temperature during the daylight hours.Within a few hours of counting, all the results are declared and it becomes clear as to who will form the next government.Ali Bux would play the shehnai and Bismillah would sit captivated for hours on end.alli always used these hours for her 'excursions' as she stood looking from the doorway of her house or sometimes even ventured out into the village; today, these same hours could be used for her first excursion outside the village.They set up funds to help members in times of distress and demanded a reduction of working hours and the right to vote.It passed through her street each hour, once going to the town and once coming back.When she arrives at work in Bangalore, a couple of hours later, she notices that a message awaits her.In France, publishers found that they could make super profits by hiring out novels by the hour.He would loll on the sofa and watch me doing things by the hour together.The whole thing lasted about an hour; then the poet left and we all dispersed in utter bafflement what are we doing? What is an English poet doing in a film studio which makes Tamil films for the simplest sort of people? People whose lives least afforded them the possibility of cultivating a taste for English poetry? The poet looked pretty baffled too, for he too must have felt the sheer incongruity of his talk about the thrills and travails of an English poet.