Two weeks ago, Facebook suffered an hours-long outage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Faster Forward: Foursquare latest social-media site to stumble] Reference

The hours-long meeting took place under the mediation of.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

That was creating shortages and hours-long lines at filling stations.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Evidence of Inflation Vexes Central Banks] Reference

She said security staff had stood by watching the hours-long confrontation.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The standstill traffic leads to hours-long delays on the four-lane highway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chris Romer: Fix I-70 Day] Reference

The hours-long process raised the political temperature in the capital, Accra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Former Minister interrogated in Ghana] Reference

I once sat through one of composer Philip Glass 'single note, hours-long concerts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Bronstein: Newsom's YouTube-athon: A One-Man Show, Hold Your Applause] Reference

The isotopes have an hours-long useful life, which means they can't be stockpiled.    From Wordnik.com.  [Closure of Canadian Nuclear Reactor Hampers Medical Sector] Reference

I used them for commuting, errands and hours-long romps on my favorite back roads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aprilia Mana 850, BMW F800S and Ducati Monster 696] Reference

Then the family hired a boat that took her on the hours-long journey to the school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lifting China] Reference

The 8-ounce device saves several minutes over the course of an hours-long operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neurosurgeons Clip and Save With Aesculaps ScalpFix] Reference

People are leaving their vehicles and walking the hours-long journey in order to get into Syria.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2006] Reference

In response to reports of hours-long waits at some polling sites, he urged Floridians to be patient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quick, Pick A Winner] Reference

After a painstaking hours-long operation, rescuers reached him and passed him hand to hand to safety.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 11, 2005] Reference

I was awed by the hours-long ceremony of asking for admission, being granted permission and being blessed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sylvia Boorstein: Ordination of Bhikkhunis in the Theravada Tradition] Reference

The hours-long classes, extracurricular activities and vigorous evaluations simply support those expectations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning (and Succeeding) on Jump Street] Reference

As the years passed, it began to seem remarkable to me that I had ever engaged in hours-long bouts of exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Older, Wiser, Slower] Reference

The D.C. Caribbean Carnival kicked off Saturday with an hours-long parade, and politicians were right up front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mayoral rivals at D.C. Caribbean parade] Reference

I also like the part of the article that equates multiple day - and hours-long system crashes as “hiccups.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Comparison of Live Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo Mail] Reference

Off-roading is available on state land, too, but the federal desert land is best suited to the hours-long races.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off-Road Racing Could End After Fatal Accident] Reference

Three men were killed and 13 people were injured on Tuesday night during an hours-long gunbattle at Selby Hostel in.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And if we're really lucky, maybe "The Phantom Menace" was really just an hours-long teaser for a better movie to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Phantom Media Blitz] Reference

Still more than in Belogh, he must listen politely to hours-long pitches for persons and causes of no interest to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hokas Pokas]

MR. MCCURRY: Well, he's had very intense hours and hours-long conversations with the United States Secretary of State.    From Wordnik.com.  [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference

School polling station in Dobsonville, Soweto, frustrated that their hours-long wait would not end in a chance to vote.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The three foreign militants, two of them Uzbeks, killed in the hours-long battle said local officials and military sources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three 'foreign militants' killed in N. Waziristan] Reference

Victims complained of calling busy telephone hot lines and standing in hours-long lines for aid, only to leave empty-handed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Cross, Strained by Deficit,] Reference

As a result, civilians were caught in hours-long crossfire between heavily armed militia and several hundred peacekeepers, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

With the parties unreachable or declining to comment, the specifics and the results of their hours-long session remain unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top-Secret Session] Reference

Guatemala in restive eastern Congo on Monday, sparking an hours-long gunbattle that left eight U.N. troops dead, officials said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Although I'm based in Chicago, a recent weeks-long assignment in New York started me taking hours-long jogs around Central Park.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Race Even Marathoners Fear] Reference

The problems led to hours-long delays for voters looking to cast ballots and raised questions about the overall efficacy of e-voting.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Daily Voting News' For December 13, 2006] Reference

He and four fellow Aquamaids were in the water, showing a lot of leg in an hours-long repetition of their breathless, upside-down ballet.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Swimmer] Reference