1.   A tickling cough coming every few hours with increasing intensity.

2.   Gen Musharraf left for Agra airport shortly before midnight after spending an hour with Mr Vajpayee before departing.

3.   He was having a cocktail hour with me.

4.   He wowed his colleagues after hours with tall tales.

5.   I hope you can help I have spent hours with Memax etc trying to understand this.

6.   I spent hours with that wretched boy evading his questions and seeming more stupid by the minute.

7.   In one case a woman waited three quarters of an hour with her child screaming with an open wound.

8.   Parties of children are only admitted during public opening hours with adult supervision.

9.   We used kerosene lamps and stood in line for hours with buckets to draw water from a public water pipe.

10.   Whatever it is, they say it hundreds of times an hour with endless patience and cheerfulness.