Sentence examples for hour barrier from inspiring English sources

Miss U.S. I broke the 200-mile per hour barrier in 1962 with an average speed of 200.419 miles/h (322.53 km/h) at Guntersville, Ala.

The graph continues and projects forward to when the one hour barrier would be passed.

Lunch can easily break the two-hour barrier.

Farah has played down suggestions he could break the two-hour barrier for a marathon.

Four months later, he broke the three-hour barrier again, in Boston.

At the post-race press conference, Tergat was asked the question: could someone break the two-hour barrier?

Last spring he broke the one-hour barrier for 13.1 miles for the first time, running 59 32 in the Algarve.

Gebrselassie, 38, predicts that the two-hour barrier will be broken but has said it will take 20 to 25 years.

It's fair to assume that Winter Sleep's punishing running time of 196 minutes (past that psychological three-hour barrier) is proving a deterrent for the less committed Ceylan fan.

I want to make clear that I think a project that took a long-term approach to breaking the two-hour barrier, and which genuinely did focus on investment in the grassroots of the sport, could be extremely successful.

At the end of 2009, in Rome, he became the first ever leg amputee to break the three-hour barrier for the marathon, running it in 2hr 56min 45sec.