As the midnight hour struck, fireworks streaked across the sky above Copacabana beach.
For three weeks each year, cycling enthusiasts live a nocturnal existence - tuning into the coverage of the tour on the channel SBS either side of the midnight hour to cheer on the best cyclist that Australia has produced.
Cocktail hour at Goldman Sachs would go from 9:00pm until midnight with an after-hour party at AIG.
It was maybe an hour before midnight at the Avalon Nightclub in Chapel Hill, and the Miz was feeling nervous.
From 21:00 on 31 December there will be a one-minute display on the hour until midnight where there will be a longer firework sequence.
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Catholic churches in Trinidad have moved their Christmas midnight mass to an earlier hour.
Perrier is trying to be accommodating, keeping his restaurant open an extra hour, until midnight, and serving the full menu in the bar.
Even at midnight or at some early hour in the morning, I will change the location of the sofa in the living room.
The doors open at 6 pm every Thursday night and the kitchen closes at midnight, with a happy hour until 10 pm that includes 20 peso margaritas.
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Albans in Washington, when he would persuade classmates to cram for midterm exams while devouring hamburgers past midnight at the twenty-four-hour Little Tavern on Connecticut Avenue, he had shown a propensity for avoiding some subjects until finally focusing on them with seemingly inexhaustible energy.
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It had been scheduled to take effect just after midnight Wednesday local time following a 24-hour postponement Monday.
In the 24-hour period that ended last night at midnight, we actually recovered 23, 000 barrels.
If you're reading this after midnight on Friday, March 1, the dreaded Beltway hour of doom known as the "sequester" has arrived and the news is that the world has not ended.
Congress's 1997 approval of federal funds to purchase the Headwaters property from Pacific Lumber was set to expire at midnight on Monday, March 1st, but the three-hour difference between the east and west coasts provided just enough time for the parties to smooth out the final wrinkles.
Control room staff took an average of 10 emergency calls every minute between midnight and 04:00 GMT, compared with 180 calls an hour on an average night.
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Instead of the traditional 9am or 10am opening hour, stores would open at 8am, then 6am, then midnight.
Taped updates are filed every hour from correspondents at the scene, and weather-bloggers file entries after midnight to their weather-obsessed fans.
Indeed, given the lateness of the hour, the audience questions only served to delay the livelier exchanges which were broadcast near midnight.
At just before midnight, on what had become a frenzied evening, I was able to calmly relax for my three hour nap knowing that I would be home when my girls got out of school the next day.
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