From an article in the Home section of today's Times about a reporter's overnight stay in Philip Johnson's New Canaan, Conn., Glass House: "Tours of the house run from May through November; beginning at 9 in the morning, they end at 5 and typically top out at just over two hours."
That is a sentence that could have benefitted from some editing. If the tours begin at 9 in the morning and end at 5, it sounds like they last eight hours, not two hours. It sounds like what the writer is trying to communicate is that the tours take about two hours and begin on the hour starting at 9 a.m. and ending at 3 p.m. (or something like that).
It's not clear why the Times chose to run this article in December, when the house can't be toured until May. It looks like the place is also open for tours from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday evenings during that season, so it's not even clear that the Times claim that the tours "end at 5" is even accurate.