1 It was after twenty-two hours when he got back to the flat.
2 Hours and hours I've spent pasting their bloody rot all over London.
3 Working hours had been drastically increased in anticipation of Hate Week.
4 They worked twelve hours a day, they left school at nine, they slept ten in a room.
5 I've got to put in two hours for the Junior Anti-Sex League, handing out leaflets, or something.
6 At the same time he noticed that although it was nearly twenty-one hours the shop was still open.
7 The Parsons children played it at all hours of the night and day, unbearably, on a comb and a piece of toilet paper.
8 Even at the best of times it was seldom working, and at present the electric current was cut off during daylight hours.
9 This was the kind of thing that Winston was good at, and for more than two hours he succeeded in shutting the girl out of his mind altogether.
10 Immediately after lunch there arrived a delicate, difficult piece of work which would take several hours and necessitated putting everything else aside.
11 Winston's working week was sixty hours, Julia's was even longer, and their free days varied according to the pressure of work and did not often coincide.
12 Children no older than you had to work twelve hours a day for cruel masters who flogged them with whips if they worked too slowly and fed them on nothing but stale breadcrusts and water.
13 They sat talking for hours on the dusty, twig-littered floor, one or other of them getting up from time to time to cast a glance through the arrowslits and make sure that no one was coming.
14 It was not till twenty-three hours, when he was home and in bed--in the darkness, where you were safe even from the telescreen so long as you kept silent--that he was able to think continuously.
15 In the labyrinthine Ministry the windowless, air-conditioned rooms kept their normal temperature, but outside the pavements scorched one's feet and the stench of the Tubes at the rush hours was a horror.
16 So, one evening every week, Winston spent four hours of paralysing boredom, screwing together small bits of metal which were probably parts of bomb fuses, in a draughty, ill-lit workshop where the knocking of hammers mingled drearily with the music of the telescreens.
17 Day and night the telescreens bruised your ears with statistics proving that people today had more food, more clothes, better houses, better recreations--that they lived longer, worked shorter hours, were bigger, healthier, stronger, happier, more intelligent, better educated, than the people of fifty years ago.
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