Sentence examples for instead of the hour from inspiring English sources

"I'm lucky if I get in 20 minutes instead of the hour I used to do," Ms. Shemin Feingold said.

It rents only two-seat Smart cars, charges customers by the minute instead of the hour, and allows for one-way rentals and free street parking.

Shopping would have taken mere minutes instead of the hour it usually takes to find all the ingredients, not to mention the time spent unloading the groceries and cooking the meals.

After 57 phone calls, I persuaded a person at TWA's 800 number to let me fly home from LAX, although not at a convenient hour -- I would have a three-hour layover in St . Louisinstead of the hour layover available to paying passengers.

How can you say it is time your pulse responded to another rhythm, the rhythm of the day and season instead of the hour and minute?

Or maybe it was a pro rata deal, and she going to speak for 14 minutes in New Brunswick instead of the hour she talked in Minneapolis.

Every weeknight, instead of the hour-long fictional dramas, they will have Jay Leno host a chat show.Like other networks, NBC is under pressure to save money on programming.

Security patrols in depots mean those who make it in can only get safe painting time of mere minutes, instead of the hours they once enjoyed.

She particularly likes it for soups, which, she said, she can prepare in 40 minutes instead of the hours they usually take her.

Adkins said a typical Skyryde flight might take a passenger from the University of California at Los Angeles to Long Beach, arriving there in a matter of minutes instead of the hours it would take to slog through L.A. traffic.

The 10,000 mAh engineering prototype can fully charge in 15 minutes instead of the hours usually required.