Sentence examples for hour was lost from inspiring English sources

In truth, some of this long rush hour was lost to channel-switching when the Cubs-Cardinal game began well before the fourteen-inning Rangers-Blue Jays thing was over, and other bits to snoozing.

South Africa had just begun their reply when over an hour was lost to rain.

Casey took 250 micrograms of acid and, within the hour, was "losing the plot a little".

Take away competitions and rest days, and - even assuming not a single hour is lost to injury - you're left with a number of training sessions that is not just finite but frighteningly limited.

In Normal and Hard modes, if Lightning flees from or dies in battle, one in-game hour is lost.

How, he asks, can the ordinary reader envisage the life that was led in those doomed, subterranean bunkers, amid perpetual shelling and bombing, often in total darkness, in which all count of the hours was lost; when meals took place at wayward hours, and the boundaries of night and day had been forgotten?

Hours are lost daily to what people here simply refer to as "the jam".

Hours are lost before the magnifying mirror, considering — or, more often, tampering with — the evidence.

Many hours were lost in offices around the world to exploring the many font choices on offer.

Their supervisors made the same mistake, so a vital six hours were lost before other methods for cooling the overheating atomic fuel rods were deployed.

Look at how many hours are lost to the British economy through bad backs and you may think Pilates could increase productivity.