Sentence examples for hours of idle from inspiring English sources

"I found myself with three, four hours of idle time every night and that's when I started working out".

Shot with shaky digital cameras (the conceit is that both police and gangsters are filming the action), it portrays the lives of two beat cops — hours of idle banter punctuated by tense standoffs with criminals.

After half an hour of 720p content and a 40-minute phone call today (plus about five hours of idle time), by battery is at 43%.

After 12 hours of idle time at 4 °C, the resulting crystalline solid is retained on a previously weighted 542 Whatman filter paper (GE Healthcare Bio-Sciences, Pittsburg, USA), both filter and solid are dried afterwards.

The Ottoman leaders were in disagreement and had their preparations for the battle delayed; after "three hours of idle waiting, Báthory, confident that Pál Kinizsi would arrive any minute, gave the order to attack".

The main engine uses a half a gallon or more of fuel for each hour of idling, he said.

Pasquale Cuomo, the railroad's marketing manager, acknowledged that trains do link up as early as 5 a.m., but denied that locomotives idle for three or four hours, as some residents charge, estimating instead a half-hour of idling at most.

After eight legal hours of sitting idle, they were off again to another town, another load, on roads linking everything together but their lives.

I believe that a novelist should write for no more than four hours a day, after which returns truly diminish; this, of course, leaves many hours for idle play and contemplation.

Original leather spine is a display of great craftsmanship, no doubt the result of idle hours spent in the parlor in want of a suitor.

The bad guys have on their side a lot of idle hours and the handy Internet, over which they trade notes and even samples.