Example sentences of "a [adj] [num] hours [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our second meeting , once the regulative café au lait had been taken and a strenuous five hours of talk had been put behind us , was concluded by a guided tour of his beloved Montreal , whose night-time allurements were enthusiastically described in a car hired for the occasion , and concluded by a celebratory meal at one of his favourite Indian restaurants , toasting each other 's health and futures in an excellent Chablis . |
| 2 | He spent four hours with the therapist who administered it to him and supervised his acid trip , and he remained under a structured hallucinatory influence for a further five hours at home . |
| 3 | The captain 's ‘ Let's go back to the butts , gentlemen ’ is the signal to start a further two hours of shooting . |
| 4 | It involves a huge staff of unseen hands working together to give four guys a trouble-free two hours on stage every night . |
| 5 | Here are three examples of different planned programmes spread over twelve weeks , based on the assumption that ( i ) the school has agreed to allocate a basic six hours per term to music and ( ii ) the school spends a proportion of its time on an integrated project . |
| 6 | When the development officer realised ‘ that she had got to such a low ebb ’ she put in a paid worker for a regular two hours per week . |
| 7 | This saving of time , together with our two days ' leave , gave us a full forty-eight hours at home . |