Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | CASH , and a Sanyo music centre , were stolen in a burglary during the early hours of Sunday morning at Birch Close , Bordon . |
| 2 | It did look terribly empty , such a change from a few hours ago when music had filled the air and swaying bodies had danced and laughed and fooled about . |
| 3 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 4 | Vandals smashed the glass front door of Jaze hairdressers in Yarm Road , Darlington , with a rock in the early hours of yesterday . |
| 5 | Point 5 includes action such as needlessly ringing a telephone in the early hours of the morning . |
| 6 | The two six man teams board a coach in the early hours of Sunday and can be driven around for hours before arriving at the venue of the referee 's choice . |
| 7 | While it is unremarkable to observe that although some people eat three meals a day , and others miss out breakfast and lunch altogether , taking all their food in the evenings , there is no such parallel during sleep — no normal person has been found who , for instance , takes all his or her REM sleep in one session of ninety minutes at the beginning of the night , or saves it all up for a session in the early hours of the morning . |
| 8 | It is a moment before the long hours in cramped quarters , which makes up spending a night in a couchette . |
| 9 | A talented broadcaster , he undertook in the summer of 1940 to contribute three times a week in the small hours of the morning to the BBC 's short-wave service to the empire and the United States . |
| 10 | The women died when their hired Astra crashed into the back of an army convoy coming back from a show in the early hours . |
| 11 | Most " events " are of a very short duration — in the case of a banquet a matter of a few hours — but some can last longer — in the case of certain sporting events , conferences or exhibitions several days , or even one or two weeks . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Hope was generally busy , but with the three of us I should be able to snatch the time for a letter in the small hours . |
| 14 | Turkish television described a raid in the early hours of March 10 against a PKK camp " consisting of about 13 tents " 8-9 km inside northern Iraq . |
| 15 | The Syrian Foreign Minister emerged to predict a release within a few hours , underlining that such a delicate operation is being handled jointly both by Syria and Iran . |
| 16 | The tail-end of a conversation in the early hours of Tuesday |
| 17 | But always , for that one first moment , there was a hope , a promise of a few hours of enchantment . |
| 18 | On testing foods , she found that wheat brought her stiff joints back , while milk and cheese produced a migraine within a few hours . |
| 19 | RESIDENTS of Alexandra Street , Grangetown , Middlesbrough , were shaken by a blast in the early hours of yesterday morning when a petrol bomb exploded on a fishing boat just feet from their homes . |
| 20 | She was walking home from a party in the early hours of Sunday morning she 'd stopped to use the toilets in St Giles when she was attacked … |
| 21 | The latest attack happened as the twenty seven year old woman was walking home through the centre of Oxford after a party in the early hours of Saturday morning . |