"He refused to work with the Iraqis in the first hours of the invasion," he said.

Junior year is very homework intensive and many students find themselves working in the early hours of the morning completing assignments.

So I worked in the non-school hours, helping direct a dance band.

But hadn't the changes already wrought in the last few hours negated any chance he had of extricating himself without leaving evidence he'd been here?

"These guys I'm with have worked a couple of 24-hour shifts in the last 50 or 60 hours."

He'd finished the project he'd been working on in the early hours of the morning.

He had seen the tide working against them too many times in the last few hours to think that their recent successes guaranteed anything.

He'd worked this out, in the hours between leaving Uncle and arriving back at the lodgings.

If you have final touches to perfect, then you'll just have to work at them in the next twenty-four hours.

A central London dentist working serious overtime in the small hours of the morning.