I spent hours reading books.

I spent hours reading books.

I spent twelve hours on the train.

I spent three hours repairing the car.

They spent four hours discussing their plan.

Fadil spent long hours on his job.

Fadil spent long hours on his job.

Tom spent three hours with Mary yesterday.

Shepard and Mitchell spent about 33 hours on the Moon, with about 9½ hours on EVA.

Gen Y'ers spent even more 23.8 hours, the majority online.

They spent hours in argument about the future of Japan.

Tom and Mary spent hours talking about their future plans.

I spent hours reading what those people of PUA Brazil write.

We spent about three hours together and she s beginning to trust me.

Altogether he spent 20 days, 17 hours, and 44 minutes in space.

Pedro II spent his days studying, with only two hours set aside for amusements.

Five years ago, Gen X'ers spent 20.7 hours online and TV, the majority on TV.

But a friend of mine spent four hours wandering around here looking for this restaurant.

The architect spent hundreds of hours designing the burnished brass switchplates for his new office tower.

I punched every touch tone I was told, but I still spent 18 hours on hold.

We spent four hours being told all about vocabulary that needs to be built between engineers and designers.

George was deeply devout and spent hours in prayer, but his piety was not shared by his brothers.

In all he had spent 145 days, 15 hours and 56 minutes in space over these five missions.

Some 16 percent spent an average of two and a quarter hours a day engaged in hobbies or amusements.

This theme of absence was reflected in the ideas produced by his long hours spent brainstorming with the band.

She later recounted that she was exceedingly fond of reading and spent countless hours in the large family library.

Thomas Watson spent hours listening to the strange crackles and hisses and chirps and whistles that his accidental antenna detected.

My older brother Panaki Bose spent hours of his time explaining atoms to me when I barely understood basic algebra.

Or, the IBM representatives might have been annoyed that DRI had spent hours on what they considered a routine formality.

As a child, Earhart spent long hours playing with Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and belly slamming her sled downhill.

She spent two hours talking to Goldman, and wrote a positive article about the woman she described as a modern Joan of Arc .

She also turned toward religion for comfort, familiarising herself with all the Orthodox rituals and saints and spent hours praying in her private chapel for deliverance.

She waited for hours and hours.

Although I knew little about the internal world of those leaders, the countless, intimate hours I spent with them have taught me more than I could imagine.

Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin spent three days on the Moon, including 18½ hours outside the spacecraft on lunar extra vehicular activity (EVA).

And then there was the language, the rhythmic cadence of it, reminding me of evenings spent listening to Bedouin elders recite hours long narrative poems entirely from memory.

She spent the last hours of her life in prayer, distributing her belongings to her household, and writing her will and a letter to the King of France.

Nonetheless, in his judgment, Strawberry Fields Forever , which he and the band spent an unprecedented 55 hours of studio time recording, set the agenda for the whole album.

He estimates that they spent 700 hours on the LP, more than 30 times that of the first Beatles album, Please Please Me , which cost 400 to produce.

Approximately 3,000 craftsmen spent around eight million working hours on the ship, and around 20,000 people were directly or indirectly involved in her design, construction, and fitting out.

And now, a typical university entering student arrives at college already having spent 20,000 hours online and an additional 10,000 hours playing video games a stark reminder that we operate in a cultural context where video games now outsell music and movie recordings combined.

We hate this mortar, to stand hours and hours.

1.5 hours .

The Working Party and its Task Forces have spent many hours in numerous meetings over three years discussing the treatment of prices in the health , education and social protection sectors .

Wallace spent many hours at the library in Leicester he read An Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, and one evening he met the entomologist Henry Bates.