Example sentences of "a [adj] hours [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It was only a matter of a few hours before the stranger had been slotted into the local kinship network ; and the recognition of kinship was mutual . |
2 | Current holder of the European title , Griffin was only passed fit to box by the championship doctor a few hours before the action got under way . |
3 | FOUR of the five gunmen who had been occupying the Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose , Costa Rica , for nearly two weeks left the country yesterday a few hours after the siege had ended peacefully . |
4 | But Springbok officials and security officers at the club gave a different version of the incident which occurred just a few hours after the team had arrived . |
5 | A spokesman for the ICPC said the investigation into the death started early on Sunday morning , a few hours after the body of Gerald Maginn was found . |