Sentence examples for if not hour from inspiring English sources

And most smaller IT companies don't want to invest in training; they want someone who's going to be productive on day two, if not hour one.

Women in American society can (and do) express their gender in ways that that can change from day to day, if not hour to hour.

Furthermore, the fragrant mess is being constantly stirred, the recipe changing, if not hour by hour, certainly from one week to the next: memory agitates, imagination warps, new stuff is learned and enters the mixture all the time.

Most are open 24 hours a day (if not, hours are given on a confirmation page).

"That second level, that normally can take three or four months, is now a matter of days if not hours.

He would be forced out in days, if not hours, and probably carried away by the men in white coats.

Running a full set of integration tests across all browsers can take many minutes, if not hours.

At times in recent years, there have been frenzied bidding wars, with houses selling within days if not hours after being placed on the market.

"A growing number of banks are being subjected to a wholesale version of a bank run, with access to [wholesale funding] evaporating in a matter of days, if not hours," warned analysts at Citigroup.

It tends to announce new devices and then shuffle them onto store shelves within weeks, if not hours, to maximize sales after the huge exposure it receives at product announcements.

Within days, if not hours, of President Barack Obama's re-election, numerous European leaders, including Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and David Cameron, the British prime minister, were urging Mr. Obama to push for a free-trade agreement.