Sentence examples for hour to pick from inspiring English sources

"It takes a customer at least half an hour to pick out the wedding bands.

"It took me an hour to pick up my tickets and go to see Greg Luzinski.

She would be back in an hour to pick him up; in the meantime, she needed to see if there were more people who needed evacuating.

Faces famous and anonymous alike waited in lines for over an hour to pick up the Compaq pocket personal computers issued to all attendees, so they could receive personal e-mail and schedule updates, and sign up for conference sessions.

Even though Pat Conroy canceled an appearance because of his health, hundreds of people waited in line for an hour to pick up an advance copy of his latest novel, "South of Broad".

And when Fresh Direct held a job fair this week, though hundreds of applicants lined up in the cold, many lost interest as soon as they learned about the low starting pay and low-temperature workplace: $7.85 an hour to pick and pack groceries at night, in 38-degree chill, often for more than eight hours at a stretch.

Lots of animals choke or get stuck in litter, so pick one hour each week to walk around town to parks, fields, school grounds, or elsewhere and dedicate that hour to picking up trash you see.

Rabbit is driving through Pennsylvania and then down into Maryland: It takes him a half-hour to pick his way through Lancaster.

A train can take more than 24 hours to pick its way through Chicago.

It took the judges about two hours to pick a winner.

In George Square earlier, undeterred by the hairdryer temperatures, hundreds queued for hours to pick up last-minute tickets.