Sentence examples for prodigious hours from inspiring English sources

The brothers, who were known for working prodigious hours well into their last years (Izzy Slutzky died in 2006 at 92), seized on ideas that later became standard practice in their industry.

Working primarily on weekends Mistorni considers himself semiretired but somehow still winds up putting in prodigious hours–he has completed 48 of his AM Guitars to date, sold through Pensa's stores.

Performed in a nightclub and cast in the form of a continuous medley lasting three and a half hours, this prodigious achievement invites the listener to revel not just in the musicians' extraordinary inventiveness but in the ceaselessly surprising nature of the material from which they draw their inspiration.

Paradoxically, the eland is usually the shyest of all African antelopes, possibly because bulk makes it short-winded: elands can trot for hours and are prodigious high jumpers (they spring over one another and 2-metre [7-foot] fences effortlessly), but they cannot sustain a gallop.

His prodigious work rate declined from 10 hours a day to three or four hours in the afternoon.

But, while you could apply the same gag to Tony Kushner's prodigious three-and-a-half-hour play The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism With a Key to the Scriptures (also known as iHO), its full title reveals a lot: this is a work about sex, politics and religion.

Google Fit has risen as part of a prodigious, two-and-a-half-hour-long I/O keynote that included everything but the kitchen sink (and Google Glass and Google+).

Like Rufus he is known for his prodigious output, and claims to "set a clue every three hours or so" (including sleeping hours).

This Woodhouse accomplished after a prodigious feat of high-speed walking, sometimes for 15 hours at a stretch across rugged mountains.

PHOTOS: Arts and culture in pictures by The Times Screenwriter David Nicholls crams hundreds of pages of child abuse and unrequited love, betrayal and revenge, identity and class into just over two hours by making judicious trims to Dickens' prodigious plot.

Winston Churchill's vast archive – everything from school reports and wagers about his prodigious drinking to a personal copy of the "finest hour" speech – will be digitised and offered online, it will be announced today.