Sentence examples for hours of contingency from inspiring English sources

Nicky Hughes, spokeswoman for Network Rail South East, said: "We had planned eight hours of contingency [with the engineering work], but the severity of the problems with the track meant we overran.

Our government allocates millions of man-hours on contingency plans for geopolitical risks like Iraq but nothing on the homeland's vulnerability to environmental destruction.

Both leaders have been courting crossbenchers in the past 48 hours as part of contingency planning for the prospect of a hung parliament.

What we should see, of course, is the pressure tending to mount on the markets with each remaining day, although the trajectory could be noisy within any 24-hour period because of contingencies related to the negotiations and to the broader economy.

The governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, had flown back from the G20 meeting in Cairns, Australia, in time for the referendum result and was in Threadneedle Street in the early hours of the morning in case a contingency plan was needed if there had been a yes vote.

Within hours of the Syrian chemical weapons attack on its people, Mattis was framing options drawn from a list of contingency plans.

Under the rules of contingency trades, the official said, the commissioner's office had granted the Reds a 72-hour period in which to speak with Griffey and his agent, Brian Goldberg.

Kurtz weaves their stories into a haunting web of contingency.

But the fact of contingency is still there.

It seems to encourage an attitude of contingency.

What this genre plays on is our sense of contingency.