The phrase "awkward hours" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe times that are uncomfortable, inconvenient, or unusual for an activity or event.
Example: "The meeting was scheduled for awkward hours, making it difficult for everyone to attend."
Alternatives: "uncomfortable times" or "inconvenient hours".
Sometimes, too, the need stems from parental jobs with awkward hours, rather than from the cost of nursery fees.
And household surveys are a bad way to poll new migrants, since they exclude anyone who lives in a hostel, works awkward hours or isn't confident in English.Councils are compiling their own rival statistics.
The boy's increasingly ambitious interventions are like a form of abstract art (he manages to change the time on a huge clock on the side of a building), and his mother, thinking her husband's spirit has changed the kitchen clock, starts making meals at awkward hours.
At the residency, they spent some awkward hours sitting side by side, too nervous to talk, until one night they "got drunk on rum punch and made out," Taryn says.
Some of the strategies employed by caretakers to adhere to treatment schedule that fell in awkward hours included the use of cell-phones alarm and radios announcements.
They contended that they were overwhelmed with responsibilities and required to work awkward hours just like trained health workers yet without pay.
It was a not entirely awkward hour.
The second was the most awkward hour of my life.
Eight o'clock, the inviolable starting time for classical events, is, for a lot of us, an awkward hour; we'd rather be sitting down to dinner, not digesting.
He refuses to blame Ford for missing a chance to dine next to a famous Russian dissident: "Ford had spared himself an awkward hour," he writes, "of making small talk into Solzhenitsyn's beard".
A cat urinated on his lap just as he was pulling out of the driveway, and he spent an awkward hour in an RV park knocking on doors in search of a corkscrew.
