21.   Across the street, at the Travelodge By the Bay, Rolando Gutierrez had already lost three guests just an hour into the blackout.

22.   Bush received two-thirds of that money and Rose the other third because they served as managing partners and put more hours into the business.

23.   But with worker approval, managers could, for instance, pack all those hours into the first two weeks of the month and allow two-week vacations.

24.   Court is scheduled to resume Tuesday morning with closing arguments, though Ito has not yet decided whether to extend court hours into the evening to streamline the process.

25.   Diane Sinclair waited at midblock, stretching her lunch hour into, say, afternoon tea.

26.   Fighting raged from the predawn hours into the evening both in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank.

27.   For us, the curtain rose in late afternoon, about an hour into our vigil.

28.   Half an hour into the conference, Leo Lambert, a Sandals spokesman, suggested to reporters that the missing woman might have had an adventurous spirit.

29.   Half an hour into the tournage, I developed a painful blister on the second joint of my right thumb.

30.   Half an hour into the class, I was soaking, dripping and exhausted.