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after-hours ADJ

business hours N

office hours N

small hours N

flexible working hours N, flexitime, flextime

hour [ˈaʊə] N

1. hour:

hour
小时 xiǎoshí

credit hour N

family hour N, family time, family TV hour, family viewing hour, family viewing time

man-hour N

person-hour N

semester hour N Am

watt-hour N ELEC

family TV hour N

family TV hour → family hour

See also family hour

family hour N, family time, family TV hour, family viewing hour, family viewing time

family viewing hour N

family viewing hour → family hour

See also family hour

family hour N, family time, family TV hour, family viewing hour, family viewing time

Usage examples with hours

waking hours
醒着的时候
idle hours
闲暇时间
Nanjing's three hours away.
到南京需要三个小时。
The hours crawled by.
时间慢慢地过去。
ten hours or so
十个小时左右
regular working hours
固定的工作时间
an after-hours bar
深夜营业的酒吧
after-hours work
业余时间的工作
visiting hours at the hospital
医院里探望病人的时间
the circle of 24 hours
24小时的周期
He spoke for 3 solid hours.
他连续讲了3小时。
stick out for shorter working hours
坚持要求缩短工时
I walked on for another two hours.
我又继续走了2个小时。
in the dead hours of the night
夜阑人静时
spend many laborious hours on the task
在这项任务上耗费了长期的艰辛劳动
The prescribed dosage is one teaspoon every four hours.
医嘱的服法是每四小时一茶匙。
cover the distance to the city in two hours
两小时走完到城里去的路
They set to and finished the work in two hours.
他们开始大干起来，并在两小时内完成了工作。

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
At five hours into the flight he became disoriented and lost altitude.
en.wikipedia.org
Unable to unionize as uniformly as men during this period, women faced struggles to acquire similar work hours and wages.
en.wikipedia.org
The agency recommends that the long-term average of radon concentration during school hours stay below 200 Bq/m3 -- the recommended upper level for detection.
www.cbc.ca
A container ship can be loaded and unloaded in a few hours compared to days in a traditional cargo vessel.
en.wikipedia.org
When the pathway is open, daemons can take humans to the island in four hours.
en.wikipedia.org
People lived and died in sight of the cotton mill in which they spent from 1416 hours of their daily lives.
en.wikipedia.org
Most adults need at least five hours' shut-eye to function prop-erly and some need eight.
www.mirror.co.uk
The school opened in 1997, and also offers an after hours child minding service.
en.wikipedia.org
The carbon fiber and titanium craft will be capable of cruising for about 6.2 miles (10km) and can stay down unaided for 24 hours.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Such courtship behavior may last from several hours to two to three days.
en.wikipedia.org

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