1. They have extended the deadline by twenty-four hours.

2. Whales take twenty-four hours to copulate.

3. Workers withdrew their labour for twenty-four hours.

4. The Egyptians probably measured their day in twenty-four hours of unequal length.

5. Sometimes she had worked twenty-four hours without sleep.

6. Twenty-four hours later you make an anonymous phone call.

7. It's the hangover from twenty-four hours of daft behaviour.

8. I shall give you my advice in twenty-four hours.

9. Twenty-four hours until kick-off and the hyperbole was drifting out of control.

10. You're confined to barracks for twenty-four hours, and on half-rations.

11. The job entailed being on call twenty-four hours a day.

12. Even with Hilton Railey running interference,[http://] the first twenty-four hours in London were rocky indeed.

13. In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries.

14. I was very sick for twenty-four hours, and Michael was coping with everything.

15. After the terror of the past twenty-four hours he was safe for the moment and in sight of victory.

16. Not for the first time in the last twenty-four hours Kate wondered what on earth had happened to her child.

17. Now, certainly within the last twenty-four hours, the room had been vandalized.

18. He enjoyed life, a hundred percent, twenty-four hours a day.

19. She devoured it, not having eaten for twenty-four hours, and then stayed on her cot until Duncan and Myeloski arrived.

20. The earth turns through one complete revolution approximately every twenty-four hours.

21. He had been in Israel for the best part of twenty-four hours.

22. My watch has gained ten minutes over the last twenty-four hours.

23. Then we get a peremptory phone call telling us we've got twenty-four hours to arrange a local arrest squad.

24. It causes the core body temperature to increase to a peak and descend to a trough once every twenty-four hours.

25. Her recovery had been slow, and she had not been able to see or hold her baby for twenty-four hours.

26. As a result, our days sometimes go by a shade quicker than twenty-four hours.

27. Men were sometimes on the beat twenty-one out of twenty-four hours during the transition between day and night duty.

28. If the play does not occur within a period of twenty-four hours, it rarely goes beyond the following day.

29. The last time, he had been down for nearly twenty-four hours without a break.

30. But on flexible, bending, shifting Hsu Fu the canvas had been nibbled away in less than twenty-four hours.

31. The entire celestial model revolves around the motionless earth once every twenty-four hours.

32. Thought I was going to die, and then twenty-four hours later I was whistling show tunes.

33. Twenty-four hours later we had emerged from the fog zone, and Hsu Fu looked like a busy laundry.

34. Security is a high priority in all military establishments, and sentries are constantly on patrol, twenty-four hours a day.

35. At midnight, twenty-four hours after leaving Calais, she finally arrived in Milan where she had to change trains.

36. And then it happened again, and Kate had another twenty-four hours of the shakes.

37. It was half past ten in the morning, twenty-four hours after arriving in Reggane and I had not yet left.

38. At slightly higher concentrations, the larvae were killed within twenty-four hours.

39. Twenty-four hours may be adequate in a laboratory, but not on an assembly line.

40. The fact that this area of the post office is open twenty-four hours a day leaves Blue with few options.

41. Ambulance workers threatened to refuse all calls for twenty-four hours on New Year's Eve.

42. The vote was twenty-four hours away now, but the election commission chairman was cool as a cucumber.

43. Doctors say that the disease is most infectious in the first twenty-four hours.

44. Now our first effort to find the site with Alvin is less than twenty-four hours away.

45. Twenty-four hours ago she had been barely aware of his existence; now he seemed to be taking over her life!

46. By Sunday evening he hadn't given the far side of the river more than a casual glance for over twenty-four hours.

47. As penance,[] Gandhi fasted three days and asked his followers to fast twenty-four hours.

48. Calling in senior embassy officials, Habib instructed them to find out within twenty-four hours who had kidnapped Kim.

49. But they'd had men dragging those stinking waters for twenty-four hours and they'd come up with nothing.

50. A solicitor's letter was sent and within twenty-four hours the building was listed.

51. We were only there for twenty-four hours, working throughout the night.

52. The perpetrators of the coup would be imprisoned by the storm for the next twenty-four hours.

53. Rushing, rushing, traffic from morning to night: it goes on twenty-four hours a day.

54. Among almost seven hundred species of egyptian cotton, some are fully grown at less than a foot high, while others can grow three feet in twenty-four hours.

55. " The Seigneur said, "I do not know, but I must have one within twice twenty-four hours.

56. Among tummysolutely seven hundred species of egyptian cotton some are fully grown under a foot high while others can grow three feet in twenty-four hours.

57. For the rest of your life, " I said, "your days are going to average out to about twenty-four hours.

58. After twenty-four hours of fighting, the remnants of the force were fleeing.

59. Some inner clocks seem to be set to a timing cycle of about twenty-four hours. These are called circadian rhythms.