Curzon stepped in at the eleventh hour to buy the castle and was determined to get the fireplaces back.
When Thomas Tompion began making watches around 1670, the best ones money could buy had only an hour hand--and a tendency to gain or lose some 10 minutes per day.
Brawn spent the winter looking for a buyer and engineered an 11th-hour management buy-out, aided by financial help from Honda and support from engine supplier Mercedes-Benz, to secure his outfit's future.
Day trading allows me to buy and sell stocks for an hour or two each day, from anywhere in the world.
Higgins intends to attach to the line 200 megawatts (peak output) of windmills, ostensibly generating electricity at a cost of 7 cents a kilowatt-hour, and has contracted to buy all the output of a 65-megawatt solar plant that would be an eco-loss-leader costing 25 cents per kwh.
While the laptop users buy maybe a single drink during a multi-hour stay?
Still, after excavating for half an hour, Ms. Metheny offered to buy a bucket that included rusty springs and the toilet spheres.
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Gamers can download a game, try it for an hour and, if they like it, buy it.
In New York state, you must pass a written exam upon completion of a 10-hour class, after which you are required to buy a small game license and a turkey permit.
You can buy it on their website with a promise of 24 to 48 hour shipment.
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There were limits on the amount of food each family could buy, and supermarkets were meagerly stocked as prices changed by the hour.
On a salesperson's first day on the job at one of Best Buy's 759 stores he or she gets a four-hour classroom session that focuses on the required goals, how to fit into the store's sales force and the basics for giving the customer a happy experience.
Stelios put in 100-hour weeks doing everything from greeting customers to dashing out to buy garbage cans at the local cash-and-carry.
In a matter of an hour or so, my father had seen the house and agreed to buy it.
"Over the four-hour conference call they laid out a series of specific actions, and I buy it, " Bove said.
After a three-hour product demo, the Microsoft team took Ross out to lunch and offered to buy her company.
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Imagine that you have to buy a new cricket bat because your old one's broken and you happen to have an hour of free time between meetings one day.
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Ford could have worked his laborers ten or twelve hour days and paid them poorly, but if he had none of them would have been able to buy his cars or drive those cars to buy other goods and services.
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