An hour before, with the children asleep and nothing but the strange darkness, he would have appreciated company.

It took them an hour before they came to the first houses of Kelseyville.

It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.

It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.

Nothing like Godot, he arrived before the hour.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

Charles Breasted remembers that, before unpacking his bag, he telephoned his bootlegger with a generous order, and almost at once `` the familiar procession of people began milling through our living room at any hour between two P.M. and three A.M. ''.

In addition to other treatments, treating the sections with normal sheep serum for half an hour before layering Af did not reduce nonspecific staining.

Emerson, in his lecture, refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight, that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before, whether dreaming or waking, a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room, and heard precisely this dialogue, at some former hour, they know not when ''.

At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.

In an hour remembered for its almost rudderless movement, a score of jazz luminaries went before the cameras for lengthy periods.

A few drops of rain just before midnight, when Sarah Vaughan was in the midst of her first number, scattered the more timid members of the audience briefly, but at this hour and with Sarah on the stand, most of the listeners didn't care whether they got wet.

The fuel was a considerable operational problem, because fuelling the missile before launch took nearly half an hour, and was quite hazardous.

Many events offer beginner-level instructions for up to half an hour before the dance.

They found that GC ’ s given to participants 1 hour before retrieval of information impairs free recall of words, yet when administered before or after learning they had no effect.

Generally, a layer of plaster will require ten to twelve hours to dry ; ideally, an artist would begin to paint after one hour and continue until two hours before the drying time — giving seven to nine hours working time.

In the second half, chances went begging for both sides before England won a corner on the right with a quarter of an hour left on the clock.

Having gained 8, 030 km per hour in speed, the spacecraft flew by Earth twice, the first time at a range of 960 km at 20: 34: 34 UT on 8 December 1990 before approaching the minor planet 951 Gaspra to a distance of 1, 604 km at 22: 37 UT on 29 October 1991.

Khunen writes, " Hamsters are nocturnal rodents who are active during the night ...", but others have written that because hamsters live underground during most of the day, only leaving their burrows about an hour before sundown and then returning when it gets dark, their behavior is primarily crepuscular.

The meeting started at 13: 50 and ended at 15: 00, an hour before the declaration was due to be made, and despite ongoing disagreements, with a unanimous vote in favour of the final text.

Usually to solve a task the contestant has to write a computer program ( in C, C ++ or Pascal ) and submit it before the five hour competition time ends.

After the commercial disappointment of Citizen Kane, RKO was apprehensive about the new film, and after poor preview responses, cut it by nearly an hour before its release.

After I had made experiments many nights, one night, the twenty-third of August 1499, there was a conjunction of the moon with Mars, which according to the almanac was to occur at midnight or a half hour before.

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

The decision was taken only after a difficult Cabinet debate which lasted for more than an hour

The United States Department of Labor is a Cabinet department of the United States government responsible for occupational safety, wage and hour standards, unemployment insurance benefits, re-employment services, and some economic statistics.

He met with Law in the Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street, and after a quarter of an hour they came to an agreement to form a coalition government.

The court-headed by a Judge and Cabinet Minister, Lord Quinborough, convicts him after a two-day trial, fining him £ 2, 500 and sentencing him to one hour on the pillory.

The base of operations for the Shadow Cabinet is the Shadowspire, a subterranean complex within the Himalayas and typically accessible only via the Shadowslide, their teleporter ( so named because, if the subject's origin is not in complete darkness at the time of teleport, the machine overloads and cannot be used for up to an hour ).

He replied that he could not imagine what importance there might be in thus meeting with a stranger, but -- joy of joys, he would be at home at the hour mentioned.

I set the hour of our meeting for seven.

A little later the district attorney woke up, emerged from under the couch, looked at his watch, and realized he had an engagement that very hour to address a meeting of the Culture Forum on `` The Civic Spirit of the Southland '', in the Byzantine room of the hotel where his wife, as president of the forum, was to preside.

Rosen initiated a 14 hour board meeting, and the directors also interviewed Pfeiffer for several hours without Canion's knowledge.

Thus an hour meeting from 10am on 1 August 2010, with a single repeat time a week later at the same time can be represented as:

In the months preceding these events, the media regularly called upon SAS to represent the equal counterpoint to the Million Mom March in print, radio and television, including a two hour televised Good Morning America town hall meeting from the White House on the Saturday before.

Orin calls Frank and tells him that Strutt will be having a meeting at a warehouse in about an hour, to sell the heroin that was stolen from Piper Tech.

Before 2009, the midweek meeting consisted of the Theocratic Ministry School and the Service Meeting ( each 45 minutes ); the Congregation Book Study ( 1 hour ) was typically held on a separate evening, divided into smaller groups meeting in private homes.

The meeting lasted about an hour.

With the ship's course unable to be changed and Starfleet now intrigued by what Archer had become aware of, Forrest was ordered to investigate, he also had Archer punished in the Agony Booth for a then record of ten hours, giving the Commander only one hour to clean up and get ready for a staff meeting after his release.

Colbert himself became a member of the Académie française ; and proposed one very characteristic rule with the intention of expediting the great Dictionary, in which he had a great interest: no one could count as present at any meeting unless he arrived before the hour of commencement and remained till the hour for leaving.

After a marathon 15 hour party meeting, Haughey, who insisted on a roll-call as opposed to a secret ballot, and won the open ballot by 58 votes to 22.

" Blackwell gained an introduction to Stone through his late father's friend William Lloyd Garrison, proposing marriage to her within an hour of their first meeting.

9: 00: President Bush meets his full National Security Council, followed roughly half an hour later by a meeting with a smaller group of key advisers.

Group neighbors will respond by performing the same type of flight, and eventually about half the group's members will depart to the meeting location where they will spend several tens of minutes – sometimes more than one hour – chattering, calling, duetting, and excitedly moving about the meeting site ( which typically is some small tree or shrubbery ).

The meeting lasted an hour, and Law told Asquith that he would continue to try to have Parliament dissolved, and that in any ensuing election the Unionists would accept the result even if it went against them.

Time said of the events following the meeting, " Minister Pomaret clamped down on French labour with a set of drastic wage -&- hour decrees and Sir Walter Citrine agreed to a proposal by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon that pay rises in Britain be stopped ".

On 20 March he had a two hour long meeting with Gladstone:

She acknowledged meeting a relative for an hour while in the United States.

An hour before the next day's meeting, Dzhurov gave Zhivkov an ultimatum — unless he resigned, the Politburo would not only vote to oust him, but have him arrested and executed for treason.