Example sentences of "a few hours [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 2 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |
| 3 | LAST WEEK I WANDERED off , rather against my better judgment , to kill a few hours at a thing called the Country Living Fair . |
| 4 | While our friends have made their new houses look good in just a few hours with a lick of paint , we 've had to put up new ceilings , repair skirting boards and hack off layers of old tiles . |
| 5 | The first weekend I spend a few hours in a boat making a note of the various depths , the location of weedbeds , and any shelves or basins which could prove attractive to fish . |
| 6 | Zen 's barking background could only have been a big plus the day he found a newborn baby whose entire experience of life was going to be lying abandoned for a few hours by a creek near Plymouth . |
| 7 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |