Example sentences of "[noun] a few hours early " in BNC.

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1 She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms .
2 I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’
3 This is the same room where Jesus a few hours earlier had celebrated the last supper .
4 As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened .
5 It had something of the squeals of the boar beneath our house a few hours earlier , whose execution we had paid for , but declined to witness .
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