Sentence examples for hours except for from inspiring English sources

The first day he wrote steadily for eight hours, except for a break for lunch.

And that meant the pundits and campaign surrogates on the three cable news networks had nothing to talk about for hours except for Mr. Obama's win.

The observation period is 2 hours, except for transfer racks as provided in (b)(3)(i)(A) or (B) of this section.

It began at 11 a.m. and lasted five or six hours, except for a short lunch break, around an oval table in a conference room in the offices of the Public Integrity Unit.

For two hours, except for crosstown traffic, the internal combustion engine was barred from Fifth Avenue between 59th and 14th Streets: the only wheeled vehicle to go down the avenue during this period was a horse‐drawn buggy carrying members of a Harlem block association.

Starting from Uaxactun in a northeasterly direction along the airstrip, one enters the Baja de la Juventud and continues along the trail in the monte baja for two hours (except for a few minutes in serrania) in a generally east-northeast direction.

It will remain empty for the next half-hour except for one man mopping the floor.

His pitches reached 97 miles an hour except for an occasional slider, like the one he bounced past catcher Mike Piazza for a wild pitch with Vladimir Guerrero batting.

After drinking at the Wrangler until closing time one cold November night, I wandered around to Main Street, which was empty at that hour, except for a crippled old cowboy who was making his way toward the railroad yards.

The parking uses daily parking rules, paying six days a week at $0.25 an hour, except for Sunday, when parking is free.

WWV also transmits a 440 Hz tone, a pitch commonly used in music (A440, the note A above middle C) during minute :02 of each hour, except for the first hour of the UTC day.