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• “I opened a ticket with HTC within a couple of hours of receiving the phone… they promised to ship out a new phone in 24 hours… that was on Jan 7th - 8 days ago…”

  Apparently, Replacing A Dead Nexus One Is Too Hard For HTC - The Consumerist

• “Time: About 1 1/2 hours plus 14 to 24 hours’ rising”

  Reading, Writing, Cooking and Crafting: Sloth bread

• “The Greeks divided the natural day and night into twelve equal parts each, and the hours thus formed were denominated _temporary hours_, from their varying in length according to the seasons of the year.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

• “Altogether the amount of fluid effused into the alimentary canal in twenty-four hours amounts to much more than the whole amount of blood in the body (which is 18 pounds in a man weighing 143 pounds); in other words, _every portion of the blood may, and possibly does, pass several times into the alimentary canal in twenty-four hours_.”

  Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis

• “The law of South Carolina permits the master to _compel_ his slaves to work fifteen hours in the twenty-four, in summer, and fourteen in the winter -- which would be in winter, from daybreak in the morning until _four hours_ after sunset!”

  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4

• “Colonel Rondon and Lieutenant Rogaciano were not much tired; I was somewhat tired, but was perfectly able to go for several hours more if I did not try to go too fast; and we three walked on to the river, reaching it about half past four, after eleven hours’ stiff walking with nothing to eat.”

  IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay

• “On the fifth day it cleared up, after a few hours, as is usual, of rain coming down like a four hours’ shower-bath, and we found ourselves drifted nearly ten leagues from the anchorage; and having light head winds, we did not return until the sixth day.”

  Chapter XIV. Santa Barbara-Hide-Droghing-Harbor Duties-Discontent-San Pedro

• “The hours, days, and years are the measures of time as we use them; that is: Jupiter's "Day" (one rotation of the planet) is made in ten of _our hours_; Mercury's "Year" (one revolution of the planet around the Sun) is eighty-eight of _our days_.”

  The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told

• “Of course they soon learned how sweet it was, after two hours 'walking of the beat, to turn in for _four hours_! which seemed to the sleepy man an eternity in anticipation, but only a brief time in retrospect, when the corporal gave him a "chunk," and remarked, "Time to go on guard.”

  Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865

• “Yes, dear brother, believe me, my imagination has often wandered, and passed hours with _you_ -- _hours_, during the silence of the night, which should have been sacred to sleep.”

  Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers

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