1.   Even though Rice despised fund-raising, he would spend countless hours at it in his years at Black Mountain.

2.   Fans waited for hours at the airport to catch a glimpse of their idol.

3.   Father and daughter would spend endless hours at a nearby tennis court, playing pitch and catch under the lights.

4.   Gone were the days when she could lie around with him for hours at a time looking at bugs in the grass.

5.   He had roamed Queenstown during his lunch hour at the beginning of the week before he could find a roaster for sale.

6.   He used to spend hours at her house on the pretext of giving her Japanese lessons.

7.   I had five sittings, an hour at a time.

8.   I used to stare by the hour at the old and the new vistas side by side.

9.   Quincy and I sit out on the Deck and read for hours at a stretch.

10.   Radiation readings are taken every hour at each station and are transmitted to a central computer which analyses the data.