The phrase "the very hour" is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use it when you want to emphasize a specific point in time, for example: "I will meet you at the very hour of 10 a.m."
This was the place..this was the very hour.
They had kept the secret of the event until the very hour of its unfolding.
At one Church Committee hearing, Senator Chris Dodd remarked on the eerie coincidence that at the very hour of J.F.K.'s assassination, C.I.A. agents were providing a Cuban agent (or double agent) code-named AMLASH with insecticide to poison Castro.
Not to mention that children whose relatives have traded minutiae about everything from their burp frequencies to the very hour they first rolled over may be, once teenagers, awed — or embarrassed — by the level of detail in their ghostwritten bildungsroman.
By Elspeth O'Halloran The New Yorker, April 5 , 1930P. 40 This was the place..this was the very hour View Article By Jelani Cobb By David Remnick By Doreen St. Félix By Joan Acocella.
As Mr. Obama was practicing his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention, at the very hour that a Denver stadium was filling up with supporters, a knock sounded on the door of his hotel suite.
Some joggers, bicyclists and pedestrians say those are the very hours that they use the paths for leisure and exercise.
The very hours of learning have also been extended beyond the classroom through online discussion groups -- often including experts in the field or alumni.
"Million Dollar Quartet" is set in the studio of Sun Records in Memphis during the very hours in which its celebrated stature was cemented.
In the very hours when Churchill was musing: "The odds were great; our margins small; the stakes infinite," before going back to his Chequers country house and an afternoon snooze, Wright was fleeing two Me 109s on his tail.
He has a glass-topped billiard table where he re-enacts Nelson's sea-battles with model fleets on the very days, at the very hours, and in the exact formations of the original engagements.He is writing the definitive biography, but is stuck at 1799, when Nelson ordered the arrest and execution of the Neapolitan republican leaders.
