hours

¹ British  

/ aʊəz /

plural noun

1. a period regularly or customarily appointed for work, business, etc

2. one's times of rising and going to bed (esp in the phrases keep regular, irregular, or late hours )

3. an indefinite period of time

4. Also called (in the Roman Catholic Church): canonical hours. 

   1. the seven times of the day laid down for the recitation of the prayers of the divine office

   2. the prayers recited at these times

5. the hours just after midnight

6. until very late

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Hours ² British  

/ aʊəz /

plural noun

1. another word for the Horae

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Example Sentences

However, he warned one metric—hours spent redoing work on the narrow-body jets—was still lackluster.

From The Wall Street Journal

Iran is still launching counter strikes, Hormuz is still at a standstill, and oil remains within a few bad hours of $100 a barrel again.

From Barron's

Committed to learning the language, Godoy took classes with teachers on top of the hours he dedicated to studying on his own for the last two years.

From Los Angeles Times

Thousands of hours of the audio recordings were eventually made public and are now controlled by the US National Archives.

From BBC

Since early February, the 37-year-old has spent more than 40 hours cutting hair ties, tissues and receipts off the fencing—through the dead of winter, with no official mandate and no pay.

From The Wall Street Journal