Multihour

For the most part, the cheerful guides made good on their promise, providing a multihour tour of the vast city—which reportedly spreads over hundreds of square miles—that included stops at a shopping mall, some hotels, a "big box" hypermarket and a series of government apartment blocks, though not the parliament. ❋ Patrick Barta (2011)

But he was treated well by officials on his latest trip, he said, with authorities welcoming him to the capital of Naypyitaw for cordial multihour meetings. ❋ Patrick Barta (2012)

Such are the risks of playing a sporting event with a multihour time difference in an Amazon rain forest. ❋ Jason Gay (2010)

A multihour operation that removed the metal from my brain and repaired my damaged dura mater a thin but tough layer just underneath the bone of the skull also left my brain badly swollen. ❋ Captain Scott M. Smiley (2010)

On December 30, 2008, Jay had his seventh surgery, a multihour procedure with several surgeons that involved unwinding a loop of intestine that had slipped downward out of his abdomen and was wrapped around one testicle. ❋ MARYN MCKENNA (2010)

The Soviet government was known for marathon congresses with thousands of delegates and multihour speeches. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A basic multihour trip costs about $50 per person. ❋ Jeff Wuorio (2003)

Al Jarvis was no stranger to multihour broadcasting. ❋ Betty White (1995)

During the blizzard that struck the Northeast the day after Christmas, there were "multihour highway delays with stalled subways and significant disruption to other modes of mass transit," says David Castelveter, vice president of the Air Transport ❋ Unknown (2011)

Throw in a multihour time difference and vacationing families might have the makings of a meltdown on their hands. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But during a routine paving project last August, a couple of gashes large enough to swallow a car emerged, causing multihour delays for tens of thousands and revealing more decay than expected in the steel and concrete below the asphalt. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But now that console games with $60 price tags and multihour narratives are the norm, developers have found all sorts of ways to keep players alive longer. ❋ Wired (2011)

There's a multihour wait at the Stanford Apple store for reserved orders. ❋ ,Readwriteweb (2010)