Example sentences of "a [adj] hours [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | This will probably involve a social worker in an area team putting together a package that might consist of a few hours of home care , a couple of days of day care , and night sitting for one night . |
2 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
3 | When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work . |
4 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
5 | This is at the comparatively small cost of three hours therapy time per individual if there are two therapists running a group ( one and a half hours of therapy time per individual if there is one therapist ) . |
6 | We were two and a half hours over guidebook time : so much for the armchair boasts of perfect stamina ! |
7 | The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas . |