English example sentences with "hours"

Learn how to use hours in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

It took me more than two hours to translate a few pages of English.

I spent twelve hours on the train.

How many hours of sleep do you need?

I've been waiting for hours.

The film lasted 2 hours.

When I was a child, I would spend hours reading alone in my room.

Bears also tend to sleep more during the day than at night, although in the summer, with twenty-four hours of light, this does not apply.

What are the banking hours?

The workers complained when their working hours were extended.

We waited for hours before help arrived.

The train was held up for two hours on account of the snowstorm.

The geyser sends up a column of hot water every two hours.

The students discussed the plan for many hours.

As a rule, the inhabitants of warm countries keep early hours.

It took three hours to put the broken toy together.

The company is attempting to stagger work hours.

The meeting lasted two hours.

Can the meeting be finished within two hours?

We must sleep at least eight hours a day.

We negotiated with the president about our working hours.

We kept on working for hours without eating anything.

The house isn't huge and it's on about two-thirds of an acre, and when we first bought it I spent several hours every week getting the lawnmower fixed and cutting the lawn, in that order.

The family had been sleeping for about two hours when the fire broke out.

Minutes or hours later Dr. Numata came in and felt Sadako's forehead.

He had been walking for hours.

After being frightened for many hours, her mother finally saved her.

He was worn out after hours of work.

I felt tired from having worked for hours.

It's painful to keep sitting for hours.

I gazed at the sea for hours.

We've been waiting for hours for you to show up.

It rained for hours and hours.

It rained for hours and hours.

I have tried for hours to remember where I put my keys, but it has completely escaped me.

It was many hours before he came to.

We disputed for hours about what to write.

How many hours does it take to go to Okinawa by plane?

What hours is it open?

Our store hours are from 10 to 7.

What are the business hours?

I only hope that the rain holds off for a few hours more.

It has been raining heavily for three hours.

A day has twenty-four hours.

The doctors say the dying man should have kicked the bucket hours ago, were he an ordinary man, but he is still defying death.

I left off work for a few hours to see the doctor.

The bad weather delayed the plane for two hours.

Due to bad weather, the plane arrived three hours late.

Three hours is too short for us to discuss that matter.

I study about two hours every day.

During the rush hours we find it difficult to get a taxi around here.

There ought to be more buses during the rush hours.

A rush-hour traffic jam delayed my arrival by two hours.

I have been reading this for a few hours.

It already has taken me hours.

Three hours of driving has worn me out. Let's pull over at the next rest stop we see.

I've waited two whole hours. I can't wait any longer.

Mary will sit still and look at the sea for hours.

Mary always studies for two hours a day.

Freddy's been working the graveyard shift the past month, so he hasn't been able to see any of his friends who work normal hours.

It took Brian several hours to write a card.

Bill kept on crying for hours.

The Hikari runs between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka in three hours and ten minutes.

There is only one bus every two hours.

It takes two hours to go there by bus.

The party went on for three hours.

The party lasted more than three hours.

Miss Nicholas swam from Dover on the English side to France in 8 hours and 58 minutes, then turned around and returned to England.

Poor Tom's been trying to get to sleep for three hours now.

The debate over which consultant to use went on for hours.

We start here in two hours, then.

I laid down for a short nap and fell asleep for two hours.

It took me several hours to write it.

Those were the saddest hours of my life.

The train pulled out two hours ago.

The boy has been sleeping for ten hours.

The noise continued for several hours.

The man died a few hours ago.

Having discussed the new project for three hours, we concluded that Andrew's plan was the best.

It took the doctor eight hours to do the operation.

The accident happened two hours ago.

That kid kept crying for hours.

It took me five hours to finish the work.

The job pays well, but on the other hand I have to work twelve hours a day.

The work is easy enough for me to finish in a couple of hours.

It took us three hours to come to a conclusion.

The hike will take no less than eight hours.

It took several hours to clear the mess left from the wreck of the truck and several cars.

And we had spent hours talking together.

It took me five hours to drive there.

Let me see. It takes about two hours by bus.

The cement will set in a couple of hours.

Jill has been on the phone with friends for more than two hours!

George was describing a 30 pound bass he'd caught recently after fighting it for three hours.

Judy spent hours on end writing and rewriting her essay.

Jane keeps early hours.

It took Jane twenty hours to fly to Japan.

Sam, this is gonna take you hours.

Instead of laying off these workers, why don't we just cut their hours?

This may be because of a change in people's attitude toward marriage and the sharp increase of fast food restaurants and convenience stores which are open 24 hours a day and enable young people to live more easily.

This medicine should be taken every three hours.

It took me a couple of hours to solve this problem.

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