This morphed into a two hour phone call originally designed to last just a few minutes.
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The bank has also introduced 24-hour phone banking to lure younger customers, and has started to diversify into leasing, insurance and annuities.
Across the five-hour phone call with the bank, the mortgage department first told Leigh they had no idea what she was talking about.
In recent months, the company has brought in more counselors, started a 24-hour phone counseling service and opened a stress room where workers can take out frustration on mannequins with bats.
Matt Thomas, of RodgerDodgerAviation, spent an hour on the phone sharing ideas with me.
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Apple hasn't been as direct about what's going on, but Wired believes there's been a 24-hour hold on phone-based Apple ID password resets while the company marshals its resources and decides how much extra strictness is required.
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But in heavier use, including lots of email usage and Web browsing, streaming a one-hour TV show via Netflix, and conducting an hour-long phone call, the battery drained more quickly and was almost gone by late in the afternoon.
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She had to wait an hour by a pay phone to find someone who wanted to use it, and in his case, it was an emergency call.
Those consumers often get a fee or two removed, but only after spending an hour or more on the phone.
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If a new mobile phone, not including the two-year contract, costs you one hour of work, it may be a better choice than a phone that costs twenty hours of work.
Then some advertisers broke that trust and thereafter came the annoying phone calls during the dinner hour.
Every hour on the hour (set your watch or smart phone alarm) I ask myself the following question.
"Vanguard experienced a surge in phone calls in the first hour of the day, but volumes considerably moderated as the morning wore on, " said John Woerth, spokesman.
In short, from now on, you might have to fend off even more phone calls at the dinner hour from brokers flogging illiquid "investments" that no sane person should touch.
Yet Benton Baugh, president of Radoil, said that in at least two separate hour-and-a-half phone calls among Interior and the experts, there was no discussion of a moratorium on existing drilling.
And the question was, question posed to all of us, I suppose, was who do you feel more comfortable with as commander in chief when that phone rings at an ungodly hour?
Elsewhere in the hour-long interview, Ross claimed his phone had been hacked by a newspaper.
One bored financial advisor sitting in front of me spent the second hour of the conference playing Tetris on his phone.
Apple announced on Monday that pre-orders of the phone topped 2 million in just 24 hours and that its initial supply batch for the phone sold out in just an hour.
Well, what if we turned off the thermostat, but on our return drive an hour away from home, I use my phone to direct an Internet-enabled thermostat to turn the heat up in my home!
She pointed to the twenty-four-hour hospice call number that was taped beside her phone.
For a heavy cellphone user like McLaughlin, the phone bills track his movements by the hour.
That's how the presenter of the award-winning, lunchtime phone-in, describes the three hour daily programme on BBC Radio Cornwall.
Matthews says that an average 150-lb. woman can burn 129 calories an hour by simply standing up while talking on the phone.
Because on three separate occasions, Ms. Lewinsky testified that Ms. Currie came over to pick up the gifts at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, an hour-and-a-half before the phone call.
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If the street celebrations lasted till dawn in the streets of France, however, the honeymoon shouldn't last very long for Hollande, who was already on the phone to German chancellor Angela Merkel an hour after being elected.
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They said goodbye, and she put down the phone and wept for a quarter of an hour.
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