Sentence examples for hour preceding from inspiring English sources

They are especially prone to yawning in the hour immediately after waking and the hour preceding their usual bedtimes.

Family will receive friends at a calling hour preceding the funeral from 9 30-10 30am at the Birches-Roy Funeral Home, Great Barrington.

Other experts on the grid said it was already beginning to be clear -- when the specific train of events last Thursday was closely examined -- that human error had to have played some role in the hour preceding the blackout.

While much of Tuesday's prime-time television schedule was pre-empted for the second presidential debate, which began at 9, CBS led the hour preceding it with a new episode of its crime drama "NCIS".

NBC led not only at 9 but also in the hour preceding "Talent," as its game show "Minute to Win It" edged ahead of its mostly rerun competitors at 8, drawing 6.9 million viewers.

CBS easily led the night over all, including the 7 p.m. hour preceding the three-and-a-half-hour show with a Grammy edition of "60 Minutes" (12.2 million) that included Anderson Cooper's interview with Lady Gaga.

When A cocktail hour preceded the interview, during which I asked Gates about being the only black face in the room.

News of McCoist's resignation had broken in the hours preceding the game.

In 2011, a run of bets prompted it to slash odds on Bob Dylan from 100-1 to 10-1 24 hours preceding the announcement of the winner.

Brazilian law prohibits public campaign events and radio or television advertisements during the 48 hours preceding the opening of the polls.

He said the R.N.C. would be heading a huge get-out-the-vote effort in the 72 hours preceding Election Day.