Sentence examples for jet hours from inspiring English sources

"I wish I could make enough money," he said, wistfully, "that I could buy private jet hours".

In January, the Chinese conducted a test of their new stealth fighter jet hours before Mr. Gates met with President Hu Jintao.

Elian Gonzalez returned to Cuba with his father and other family members aboard a chartered jet, hours after the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal brought by Miami relatives who wanted an asylum hearing for the boy.

Like thousands of American Airlines passengers last Dec. 29, Kate Hanni and her family were stuck aboard a jet for hours, out on the runway.

Already his people were gathered along the expressway from the airport through the suburbs, a million of them or more, preparing to shed their tears of welcome and lamentation as the big jet, 11 hours out of Paris, floated above the endless clusters of high-rise blocks with their shanty-town infills.

"Intellectually, I've felt we were going to win this and have felt that for some time," the candidate had mused to campaign trail reporters aboard his private jet, mere hours before news agencies declared Barack Obama the victor.

It gave the Jets five hours to sit and mull over their dispiriting 16-13 overtime loss to the disheveled Raiders.

It was a scene which echoed Alex Brosque's celebration in Sydney FC's 1-0 win over Newcastle Jets 24 hours earlier.

A steadily worsening economy in 2008 caused a 19.3percentt cutback in business-jet flight hours through November, according to a study by J.P. Morgan.

Charter-jet flight hours rose nearly 13percentt in the 12 months ended in July 2000, according to the Air Charter Guide of Cambridge, Mass., which tracks the industry.

"That's about one-tenth the operating cost of a business jet per hour," he said.