Sentence examples for As hour from inspiring English sources

As hour followed hour toward an absolute writing deadline (a condition I've never had to deal with in fifty years at The New Yorker), I was able to produce only one sentence: "The citizen has certain misgivings".

As hour after hour passed after the top kill began early Wednesday afternoon, technicians along with millions of television and Internet viewers watched live video images showing that the dark oil escaping into the gulf waters was giving way to a mud-colored plume.

It literally translates as "hour of the stars", although it's more idiomatically anglicised as something like "moment of glory".

Twelve rods suspending the movement in the center of the case also serve as hour indicators, coated in Super Luminova to give an after-dark glow.

Based on the concept of "spacetime," the watch used "negative space" in the form of twelve holes on the outer case as hour markers.

Usually the data in a time series are collected at equally spaced periods of time, such as hour, day, week, month, or year.

As hours have stalled, so has weekly wage growth.

But as hours passed, the distinction between them often seemed to blur.

She began fearing the worst, as hours ticked by and she heard nothing from him.

We measured involvement with one's land as hours per week operating or working one's land.

Exchanges between streams and hyporheic zones, for example, have been estimated to be as short as hours to as long as several weeks.