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Example sentences for "nine hours"

  • We started early, and made a long day of nine hours and a-half, and did not encamp until an hour after dark.

  • We started early for the well, but did not reach it till late in the evening, after a march of nine hours.

  • From Kuka, south, to Manguno, nine hours; a large town.

  • We left Sharaba at a quarter past six in the morning, and made a good day of nine hours.

  • We started somewhat late, and made a good day of nine hours and a-half through winding narrow valleys, supplying a fair quantity of hasheesh.

  • Next day, the 9th, we rose before sunrise and made a good day of nine hours, still over the same plain of Taeeta.

  • Nine hours' journey brought us to the valley of Amjam, where there was a khafilah of senna encamped among the trees.

  • It was not, for instance, until the return of private control that the fastest trains between Chicago and the Pacific coast brought to their pre-war standard of approximately sixty-nine hours.

  • Already the motor terminals company is hauling about one thousand tons of freight through the streets of Cincinnati in nine hours of each business day.

  • Three days' pay in eight or nine hours is not bad.

  • An' did you ever try settin' nine hours a day?

  • The night coaches to London used to do the distance in about twelve hours, and the day coaches did it in nine hours; but the mails were ten hours on the road.

  • Rocket," that started from the "Quebec" Tavern, and did the journey to town in nine hours.

  • Nine hours later we were exulting with a rapturous joy.

  • Last October, despite our strenuous endeavours, the same distance had occupied us thirty-nine hours' marching, or thirteen days inclusive of the halt!

  • In nine hours we arrived at Tripoli, and alighted at the house of the English agent Mr. Catziflis.

  • Nine hours and a quarter, we saw, at one hour to the left, the village El Kherbe [Arabic].

  • Ain't nine hours a-day enough for the men to be at work?

  • The chipped wood is boiled in stationary or revolving digesters for eight or nine hours at a pressure of 70 or 80 lbs.

  • The process most generally adopted for the manufacture of wood pulp is the treatment of the material in brick-lined digesters with bisulphite of lime for eight to nine hours at a pressure of 80 lbs.

  • The beating process only occupies thirty to forty minutes in the case of the common news, a marked contrast to the eight or nine hours required by rags.

  • The stupor suddenly deepened into coma, and the man died; the fatal course being altogether about nine hours--viz.

  • Salmont took the medicine in nine hours, and died in twelve.

  • At the end of nine hours, we halted during the night near the village of Rabegh, our road having been constantly level.

  • At the end of nine hours, we issued from this wady, which is on a very slight ascent; and then taking a direction E.

  • At nine hours and a half, it being a cloudy and extremely dark night, we lost our way in following the windings of a side valley, and being unable to regain the right road, we lay down on the sand and slept till day-break.

  • The weekly hours of labor shall consist of 50 hours in 6 working days, to wit, nine hours on all days except the sixth day, which shall consist of five hours only.

  • She had worked through May, June, and July as a trimmer, making $11 in a week of nine hours a day, with Saturday closing at five.

  • An engraver cannot well work more than nine hours a day.

  • They are employed through the year, and work sixty-nine hours per week, twelve hours per day for five days, nine hours on Saturday.

  • In winter they spend eight and a half hours in the store; in summer, nine hours.

  • In Dublin, about five hundred women are employed in eight of the large establishments of that city in boot closing, and earn on an average eight shillings per week, of nine hours a day.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nine hours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


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