The twelve-hour requirement is even more important.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference

It was a twelve-hour shift, with five hours left to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sum of all Fears]

Dull-eyed and sleepy from the strain of a twelve-hour day.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Demand A Living Wage] Reference

It's only a twelve-hour ride and we don't change cars at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

I closed up at seven, after a nice, relaxing twelve-hour day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

The twelve-hour time limit was half up when Benjamin Marlowe and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference

For Sinatra, the filming was hard work; arduous twelve-hour days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth]

What they want is to have a twelve-hour go at the wine in the valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

The entire staff had been putting in twelve-hour days without complaint.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Many Bosses]

So we were almost finishing a twelve-hour shift and we were ready to go home.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2006] Reference

His twelve-hour television dramatization of SHOGUN was a landmark in the industry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

The twelve-hour night rest should be continued until the child is six years of age.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

The "heritage" of children in factories, twelve-hour workdays, Pinkertons and scabs?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph A. Palermo: The Heritage Foundation Spreads Lies on YouTube About the Employee Free Choice Act] Reference

A twelve-hour study in the sleep lab was performed with essentially normal findings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cruel Deception]

"Joan's twelve-hour time limit in Arret will expire at one o'clock tomorrow morning.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference

The old-fashioned clock with the twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference

  They read like fiction after a typical twelve-hour day analyzing scientific reports.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ancient Symbol for Fire] Reference

Recently, Domestic Workers United hosted a twelve-hour vigil outside the office of Gov.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arlene M. Roberts: The Nanny Diaries: A Caribbean Version] Reference

For a number of years his twelve-hour day has been divided into two six-hour stretches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The University of Virginia Library, 1825-1950] Reference

The doctor had ordered a twelve-hour fast and now she feels like she does on Yom Kippur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Girl] Reference

The police were put on twelve-hour duty and worked in the flooded territory in rowboats.    From Wordnik.com.  [The True Story of Our National Calamity of Flood, Fire and Tornado] Reference

An old-fashioned glass clock with a twelve-hour face was ticking away on the mantelpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nineteen Eighty-four] Reference

When the mill was working on twelve-hour shifts, when would people get together like that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, September 2, 1976. Interview H-0066. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

The twelve-hour drive over desolate stretches of interstate gave him time to ponder a plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]

A nine-hour rule for first-year students and a twelve-hour rule thereafter might be feasible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Board of Visitors minutes] Reference

MF: When the mill was working on twelve-hour shifts, when would people get together like that?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Flossie Moore Durham, 1976 September 2. Interview H-66. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007). By Flossie Moore Durham] Reference

Milt typically ran his team in three eight-hour shifts, or two twelve-hour shifts to start with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consent to Kill]

I was out of town from Friday to Tuesday morning at 6 am, after which I worked a twelve-hour day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 3 Recap: Everybody Hates Gretchen] Reference

By the time cables get back and forth, this will mean a twelve-hour delay, I hope you realize that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thorn Birds]

Moreover, they worked a twelve-hour day, seven-day week - with no time off for meals, and in foul conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [I. C. I. Song (Chemical Workers Song)] Reference

When the mills went from two twelve-hour shifts to three there became a shortage of workers, and particularly in ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Eula McGill, February 3, 1976. Interview G-0040-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

But even here the barometer was erratic, and a twelve-hour thaw with rain would throw the advancing columns into disorder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarossa]

Similarly if it's a twelve-hour exit poll survey in the field you're not going to release results after just three hours of interviews.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poll: Dems Maintain 20-Point Lead Over GOP In Generic Matchup] Reference

Joan before the twelve-hour limit should doom the girl to forever remain an exile in that land of alien mystery beyond the atomic barrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference