When Thomas Tompion began making watches around 1670, the best ones money could buy had only an hour hand--and a tendency to gain or lose some 10 minutes per day.
First the left-hand veil of the ballerina's skirt rises to indicate the hour, followed by the right-hand veil rising to show the minutes.
He has implored the country that invented the 35-hour week to work more and expect fewer hand-outs from the state.
Celtic remained composed as a Caldwell header inched past Ruddy's right-hand post just after the half-hour mark.
Elebert glanced in a header from close range shortly after the half-hour mark that was just past Langfield's left-hand post before Aberdeen's Ricky Foster kept out an Alex Neil effort from the right-hand side of the penalty area.
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Seemingly without breaking sweat, Spurs' second goal arrived on the half-hour mark when Jenas found Keane in space on the left-hand side of the area and he ran on to slot home past the on-rushing goalkeeper.
One woman's body was found in a river an hour from her village, booby-trapped with hand-grenades.
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There are enough new cars (or at least second-hand ones imported from Japan) to gridlock Kingston's rush-hour traffic.
To squeeze even droplet-size margins from this business, you need to put in 14-hour days minding every aspect of bottling, packaging and distributing, as well as customer hand-holding.
McNierney acknowledged that most customers may bypass the hand cranks but he insisted they are usable. (Six minutes of hand-cranking should produce an hour of run-time.) To test the feature, the organization took out the tablet batteries to see whether the devices could run just by hand crank.
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Everyone agrees that the number of deaths from traffic accidents around 500 this year, or five for every hour of the four-day festival is out of hand.
Kilmarnock had a glorious opportunity to equalise just after the hour mark when Mehdi Taouil's cross to the right-hand post found recently-introduced Simmonds, but he contrived to blast his effort wastefully over the bar.
Protecting a first-leg 3-1 lead, Inter were forced to play more than an hour a man short after Thiago Motta saw red for a hand-off on Sergio Busquets.
Twentysomethings spend their days rearing children, living hand to mouth in Asia, and working sixty-hour weeks on Wall Street.
You top off the last sip of your afternoon 5-Hour Energy when you notice your boss approaching, new project in hand.
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Contestants get one five-minute break every hour, but otherwise must stand bolt upright with one hand on the pickup at all times.
On July 8, 2010, when LeBron made his announcement on a dorky, drawn-out, one-hour ESPN extravaganza with Jim Gray, many pundits immediately were ready to hand the 2011 NBA title to the Heat because of the Big Three of LeBron, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.
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There, the Socialist government of Lionel Jospin has been busy imposing new costs on employers with one hand (through such policies as a shorter, 35-hour, working week) while trying to reduce them with the other for example, by its plans announced last week for further cuts in social-security contributions paid by employers who create at least 6% more jobs but also enforce the 35-hour week.
He had what appeared to be gunshot wounds to his head, neck, legs and hand when he was captured April 19 after a nearly 24-hour manhunt, according to the criminal complaint accusing him in the marathon blasts.
On top of that, the ten-hour weekly marathons are leavened by humor whenever possible, for Day constantly tries his hand at cracking jokes.
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But United extended their lead after half an hour as a sparkling counter-attack from Goodwillie ended with a shot that Olejnik tipped away with one hand before Conway's follow-up hit the post.
Wednesday were inches wide from giving Watford slight cause for concern with quarter of an hour to go when substitute Etienne Esajas' free-kick swung just wide of Loach's right-hand post.
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