Example sentences of "a [adj] hours ' [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn . |
| 2 | The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all . |
| 3 | Nicola 's parents stayed at her bedside until 2.30am before snatching a few hours ' sleep in a room at the hospital . |
| 4 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 5 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |