hours
IPA: ˈaʊɝz
noun
- an indefinite period of time
- a period of time assigned for work
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Examples of "hours" in Sentences
- Time: About 1 1/2 hours plus 14 to 24 hours rising
- I opened a ticket with HTC within a couple of hours of receiving the phone they promised to ship out a new phone in 24 hours that was on Jan 7th - 8 days ago
- The Greeks divided the natural day and night into twelve equal parts each, and the hours thus formed were denominated _temporary hours_, from their varying in length according to the seasons of the year.
- The law of South Carolina permits the master to _compel_ his slaves to work fifteen hours in the twenty-four, in summer, and fourteen in the winter -- which would be in winter, from daybreak in the morning until _four hours_ after sunset!
- The hours, days, and years are the measures of time as we use them; that is: Jupiter's "Day" (one rotation of the planet) is made in ten of _our hours_; Mercury's "Year" (one revolution of the planet around the Sun) is eighty-eight of _our days_.
- On the fifth day it cleared up, after a few hours, as is usual, of rain coming down like a four hours shower-bath, and we found ourselves drifted nearly ten leagues from the anchorage; and having light head winds, we did not return until the sixth day.
- Colonel Rondon and Lieutenant Rogaciano were not much tired; I was somewhat tired, but was perfectly able to go for several hours more if I did not try to go too fast; and we three walked on to the river, reaching it about half past four, after eleven hours stiff walking with nothing to eat.
- Altogether the amount of fluid effused into the alimentary canal in twenty-four hours amounts to much more than the whole amount of blood in the body (which is 18 pounds in a man weighing 143 pounds); in other words, _every portion of the blood may, and possibly does, pass several times into the alimentary canal in twenty-four hours_.
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