Below you will find example sentences with "two hours". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Two Hours in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: hours
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 28
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 33.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "two hours" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 33.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 5 or two hours to get, at least two hours before your, hour, four and day stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with two weeks, two daughters, two years and four hours, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with two hours
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
Arrive at least two hours before your scheduled departure for a domestic flight and three hours early for international travel. (20 words)
For me, it was three hours in traffic in the afternoon, 3½ hours at the gala and two hours in no traffic back home. (24 words)
The car park is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and prices start at £2.80 for up to two hours. (24 words)
In terms of refunds, a passenger should be offered 25% of the ticket price if they are delayed by one hour for a four-hour trip, two hours for four and 8-hour trips and six hours for a journey scheduled to last more than 24 hours. (47 words)
His parents worked far away, so the kids would get dropped off at ours, two hours before school and be picked up from ours two hours after school, and even occasionally staying over with us one-week-at-a-time if the parents went away on holiday. (47 words)
But, it’s important to keep in mind the kinds of resources required to abruptly rent a car, drive four hours, wait in line for two hours, and drive back four hours just two days before rent is due. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
Stays of less than 15 minutes remained free but there was a 20p increase for stays of up to one hour, one to two hours, two to three hours and four to five hours.
But, it’s important to keep in mind the kinds of resources required to abruptly rent a car, drive four hours, wait in line for two hours, and drive back four hours just two days before rent is due.
Sherman worked with Bird for about two to three hours a day during the beginning of rehab, but her hours have reduced to one to two hours a day.
In terms of refunds, a passenger should be offered 25% of the ticket price if they are delayed by one hour for a four-hour trip, two hours for four and 8-hour trips and six hours for a journey scheduled to last more than 24 hours.
So, he would drive an hour to work, work 8 hours, then an hour back, and then, he would spend at least one to two hours downstairs in the basement at his drawing board working unpaid hours for Boeing.
They felt aftershocks during the journey to Cappadocia which would take them a total of seven hours - two hours from Sanliurfa to Gaziantep and another five hours from there to Cappadocia.
For me, it was three hours in traffic in the afternoon, 3½ hours at the gala and two hours in no traffic back home.
Generally, a layer of plaster will require ten to twelve hours to dry; ideally, an artist would begin to paint after one hour and continue until two hours before the drying time—giving seven to nine hours' working time.
A further one in seven said that two hours was their limit – meaning that almost two-thirds (65 per cent) are not prepared to go longer than four hours.
He spends two hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon standing at the junction hoping to get some cash into his empty Pringles can.
His parents worked far away, so the kids would get dropped off at ours, two hours before school and be picked up from ours two hours after school, and even occasionally staying over with us one-week-at-a-time if the parents went away on holiday.
It also meant that, instead of two hours on and two hours off, both men had to work all the time – one to row, the other to manually steer the boat.
As noted, this week’s WWE Raw, featuring the historic Gauntlet match which lasted nearly two hours, was a major ratings win for WWE in that the match held viewer attention throughout hours one and two.
The currently gated Edendale lot would be open for safe parking starting one or two hours after the library’s closing and ending one or two hours before its opening.
And a dishwasher load can take anywhere between one and four hours, depending on the setting you pick – so let’s say it takes 1.5 or two hours (to get a ‘happy medium’ average).
Arrive at least two hours before your scheduled departure for a domestic flight and three hours early for international travel.
Scott says if a movie is longer than three hours, you get the "bum ache factor" around two hours in, which is something he constantly watches for when he's editing.
Shares of Meta, which have risen nearly 150 per cent so far this year, flip-flopped in after-hours trading, initially gaining three per cent before reversing to trade three per cent below the closing price two hours later.
The car park is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week and prices start at £2.80 for up to two hours.
The show that while elephant seals may spend 10 hours a day sleeping on the beach during the breeding season, they average just two hours of sleep per day when they are at sea on months-long foraging trips.