It's useful for a business wishing to announce hours of operation or location.

The location is announced hours before screening begins.

The agreement was announced hours after the market closed.

The conquest of Everest, announced just hours before the coronation, brought a flush of national pride.

A notice on the door, posted a year ago, announces new hours.

Another 15-year-old who works after school in a store, usually five hours a day, said the store had not announced reduced hours.

El Universo says the president's suit was announced several hours after the newspaper published an article about an information access request denial.

Or a foe of wildlife, with his desire for above-ground water storage, announced hours after his move to limit emissions?

Amy Winehouse was announced dead just hours before the end of the festival.

Moody's announced that decision on Thursday, hours before the blackout, and Standard & Poor's followed suit yesterday.