Sentence examples for Proper hour from inspiring English sources
The proper hour can be 11 p.m., or midnight or later still in places where the patrons do not like to go home.
She promised to visit the poor, read to her aunt, go to bed at the proper hour and examine her list of duties daily.
To acquire their talents, and see that the ladies were on the set at the proper hour, certain of the film's personnel did everything but distribute engagement rings.
You get a proper hour of play with two or three extra ones cocooned around it in which to enjoy yourself by eating and drinking half your body weight in hot dogs, nachos and beer.
Then, briefly, people seemed to remember that, as with weddings, there is no fixed and proper hour for people to stand at rostrums and make what may or may not be empty promises; 9 P.M. would work just fine for the debate.
Far too many contemporary picture books for the young are still populated by children who eat everything on their plates, go dutifully to bed at the proper hour, and learn all sorts of useful facts or moral lessons by the time the book comes to an end.
Take the TUC's campaign, Work Your Proper Hours Day.
Work Your Proper Hours Day is all well and good but it doesn't go nearly far enough.
This Friday is the TUC's third annual Work Your Proper Hours Day, the day when, it calculates, the average person who works unpaid overtime completes the "free" days they do every year, and finally starts earning for themselves.
So the TUC has declared that this Friday be named Work Your Proper Hours day, since all the year's working days before that, if you average things out, are given away free to the evil bosses.
These include the following: * Proper recognition of unsocial hours as premium time; * No disadvantage for those working antisocial hours compared with today's system; * No disadvantage for those working less than full-time and taking parental leave/research time compared with the current system; * Pay for all work done * Proper hours safeguards to protect patients and their doctors.
