Sentence examples for few hours off from inspiring English sources

He was eager, he said, to get to Atlanta, where he had big plans for his few hours off: playing video games with friends he's made there.

When the bombs detonated in Boston, Massachu­setts governor Deval Patrick was taking a few hours off and was on his way home to relax in his garden.

At the moment, the book signing was still a few hours off, and Mr. Carter was seated by a window in his suite in a Manhattan hotel.

I also forgot that I need to arrange nice little outings, trips and inspirations – or just a few hours off for myself to preserve maximum efficiency.

"Let it be remembered that throughout almost 14 years of life he worked a 24-hour shift on one dreary problem after another without complaining and spent, at the most, only a few hours off sick," the computer's obituary said.

ONE day when her Jamaican nanny, Hy, had to take a few hours off, Lucy Kaylin, the executive editor of Marie Claire, took her children — 5-year-old Sophie and 2-year old Owen — to the park herself.

Rachael now goes to school first thing in the morning, then skates, then goes back to school, then skates again, then does a few hours of off-ice cardio work.

Relative to 2006, both operators and spouses worked fewer hours off-farm in 2007.

In 2008, operators but not spouses worked fewer hours off-farm than in 2006.

Results in Tables 4 and 5 indicate that farms specializing in dairy production tend to have operators and spouses who work fewer hours off-farm.

Programs such as public healthcare might benefit farm households by decreasing the need to personally fund these benefits, work fewer hours off-farm, and work more hours on the farm especially if there are non-pecuniary benefits to farm labor.