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Example sentences for "six hours"

  • There's a hundred and thirty-six hours in each of these days," he said.

  • I have often thought that if books attracted you the library would help you to get through a good many of the hundred and thirty-six hours a day you've spoken of, and get through them pretty decently," commented the duke.

  • It'd be no trouble for THEM to put in a hundred and thirty-six hours.

  • The infantry did not start till about 3 o'clock and only reached Gembloux late that evening--nine miles in six hours!

  • We ought to have seen the lights of Auckland thirty-six hours ago.

  • So I tucked myself in, and slept conscientiously, I assure you, for thirty-six hours.

  • It would scarcely take thirty-six hours to go through them, and the moving panorama on both sides, seen in all the clearness and glory of the light of a southern sun, was well worth the trouble of looking at and admiring.

  • The gale lasted thirty-six hours, and after many narrow escapes, I found myself some sixty miles W.

  • On the 10th February, when not far from Cape Runaway, the corvette was caught in a violent storm, which lasted for thirty-six hours, and she was more than once on the point of foundering.

  • King, however, had left La Praya thirty-six hours previously, and the Astrolabe therefore resumed her voyage the next day, i.

  • I set out for Brighton this morning in a light coach, which performed the distance in six hours--otherwise the journey was uncomfortable.

  • I was detained in the Court till nearly one o'clock, then set out and reached Abbotsford in five or six hours.

  • I waked, or aked if you please, for five or six hours I think, then fevered a little.

  • In midwinter in the upper valley the sun rises only a few degrees above the horizon for from four to six hours a day, though very often quite obscured.

  • After a search of six hours, they find twelve fowling pieces and thirteen rusty pistols, which he has already declared.

  • You'd ought to be five-six hours behind us.

  • But we'll get the Aldeb off in six hours.

  • There's a minor overhaul going on, but we can get her going in six hours.

  • So gradual is the deadly effect that, after a delay of thirty-six hours before my attention was called to the case, the administration of the antidote proved successful.

  • My inquiries informed me that this had happened at least thirty--six hours since!

  • But it was far worse for the old woman, as he always termed her, to be alone in the shop for thirty-six hours.

  • In six hours' time the car raced up the avenue at "Layton," to find Samuel Quirk pacing the verandah while he awaited his son.

  • This was his lucky trip; stray nails there were in plenty, also dangerous places, but the Fiat raced through in six hours.

  • This must bake five or six hours or more as an ordinary Pasty.

  • Then take it from the fire, and let it Cool in a Woodden vessel, till it be but lukewarm; which this quantity will be in four or five or six hours.

  • It must boil in all five or six hours gently, like stewing after it is well boiled.

  • Every one had his watch of six hours, five of which were commonly passed in the ice-house.

  • It is situated on the India side of the Cabul River and is six hours by rail from Rawal Pindi.

  • It is thirty-six hours since I swallowed a bit of food, just as the French were moving to the attack.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    girl whom; large court; large mouth; little boat; military point; modern critics; our common; readily understood; six feet; six inches; six miles; six months; six years; sixteen feet; sixteen hours; sixteen hundred; sixteen miles; sixteen millions; sixteen years; sixth century; sixth chapter; sixth dynasty; sixty grains; sixty guns; sixty millions; sixty pounds