Sentence examples for hour off from from inspiring English sources

At 10 p.m., my sister had an hour off from her rounds at the hospital.

In New York City, in 1983, he took an hour off from filming Kennedy to visit Bloomingdale's to buy his girlfriend a handbag.

Carolyn Carolina, 58, took an hour off from work to change her registration so she could vote Tuesday — for Mr. Obama.

Not so late as to be dinner, of course, but lunch wasn't institutionalized until the onset of industrialization, in the nineteenth century, when factory workers on long shifts were eventually given an hour off from their labors to eat a meal in the middle of the day.

LOS ANGELES — When Hugh Laurie gets an hour off from shooting scenes on his hit Fox drama "House," he generally stretches out on a couch in his comfortable trailer, though not because he needs a quick nap to recover from playing one of television's most complicated lead characters.

Take an hour off from saving the world while TallGrass picks up the slack.

One day Meredith and I took a few hours off from food and poked around the Sloss Furnaces, a defunct iron plant left towering above its slag heaps.

In they filed: foreigners for whom soccer is lifeblood; American tourists for whom the game merited diversion from their sightseeing itineraries; and New Yorkers looking for a couple of hours off from work, a few morning beers in plastic cups and a chance to watch our boys play Slovenia.

(Little did he realise his lie-in was just an incentive to encourage him to keep up his investment in our marital economy – and the price I'm willing to pay in exchange for several hours off from child care to write in peace and quiet on a Sunday afternoon).

But after putting participants in a small study on a 28-hour day until their sleep schedules were 12 hours off from normal, researchers found nearly all of these genes were out of whack.

FULL COVERAGE: Cannes 2013 Ronan spoke via phone from Michigan on Wednesday morning, where she was taking a few hours off from the set to promote her upcoming crime drama "Violet & Daisy".