hour
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It was on the ground at the airport for just over an hour before it took off again and started its final flight.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
From January 2025 to this October, Tier 1 rates went from 22 cents per kilowatt hour to 27 cents, a 23% increase in a year and a half.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Now, that is up to $40 to $45 an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
A neighbor said police initially arrived at the residential building approximately one hour after the shooting.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
It so happened that about that hour was the normal time to give water to their mules.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
After factoring rest rules that include hours-of-service limits, typically 11 or 12 hours, the utilization rate of the truck falls to 40%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
The dolphin arrived with "serious vision problems" and other health issues, it said, and "began having difficulties swallowing and respiratory problems" in the hours before she died.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Domjan's flight lasted five hours and nine minutes.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
“There’s some things I think don’t portray the facts exactly quite right, but they recorded 500 hours and you’re not going to love everything that’s on the screen. Everybody is represented in this film.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
He may have been gone only minutes, but it felt like hours of my life had passed.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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