Sentence examples for hour to avert from inspiring English sources

He scored 50 in 18 minutes and reached 86 in under an hour, to avert his side's follow-on.

They had just 48 hours to avert apocalypse.

"We have 24 hours to avert the strike, and that is what we will try to do," one government source said last night.

Nor do they know that I'm not able to go to work or take care of children because the long-term side effects of the chemo can make me black out, or hug my hardwood floor for hours to avert a black out.

Junior doctors will proceed with a ballot for industrial action after Jeremy Hunt's eleventh hour proposals to avert a strike were branded "misleading" and unsafe.

David Cameron last night launched an 11th-hour bid to avert a backbench revolt over the Government's support for military personnel and veterans.

A 2013 accord, brokered by Russia, took Assad's declared chemicals out of Syria in an 11th-hour move to avert US bombing.

Granada Media and Carlton Communications have made an eleventh-hour bid to avert being forced to hive off their sales houses ahead of a merger.

The last week has seen an 11th-hour deal to avert a government default, a stock market plunge, a cautiously positive jobs report and the nation's first credit rating downgrade in history.

Boyce later said that her team's eleventh-hour intervention to avert what could have been a major transportation nightmare for the city exemplified what engineering is all about: the coming together of people with diverse technical expertise to generate novel solutions to problems.

So after staring at the plot for – I kid you not – a couple of hours, trying to avert my eyes from the very-inviting bean bed, I kind of compromised by sowing two-thirds of the onions (almost certainly too close together) in four tight rows in the cleared space and dotting some garlic through the chicory.