ADJ
- solid
- I slept for eight solid hours
VERB + HOUR
- take
- It takes two hours to get to London
- spend
- last
- The performance lasted three hours
- gain, lose
- You gain five hours when you fly from New York to London
HOUR + VERB
- go by, pass
- An hour passed and she still hadn't arrived
PREP
- by the ~
- They're paid by the hour
- for an ~
- She worked for three hours
- in/ within an ~
- I should be back within a couple of hours
- over/under an ~
- He's been gone for over an hour
- per ~
- Top speed is 120 miles per hour
- within the ~
- We hope to be there within the hour (= in less than an hour)
- ~ of
- There are still two hours of daylight left
PHRASES
- half an hour, hour after hour, an hour's time, with every passing hour
- She grew more worried with every passing hour
VERB + HOUR
- chime, strike
- The clock struck the hour
PREP
- on the ~
- Buses leave every hour on the hour
- past the ~
- ten minutes past the hour
- to the ~
- ten minutes to the hour
ADJ
- lunch
- peak, rush
- rush-hour traffic
VERB + HOUR
- spend
- I spent my lunch hour shopping
ADJ
- office, opening, working
- licensing, visiting
- Britain's licensing hours (= when pubs are allowed to open) the hospital's visiting hours
- flexible
- long
- regular
VERB + HOUR
- work
- She works very long hours
- keep
- He keeps regular hours
PREP
- after ~
- He spends a lot of time in his office after hours
- out of ~
- Doctors often have to work out of hours
ADJ
- darkest, finest
- This was often thought of as the country's finest hour
- antisocial, unearthly, ungodly, unsocial
- I apologize for phoning you at this ungodly hour
HOUR + VERB
- come
- The hour had come for us to leave
PREP
- between the ~s of
- The office is closed between the hours of twelve and two
- ~ of
- the hours of darkness
PHRASES
- your hour of need
- She helped me in my hour of need