Example sentences of "[noun] a few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he makes a lightning trip back on Concorde for Petit Loup in the Arc a few hours later . |
| 2 | Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago . |
| 3 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 6 | Newman recalled briefly his experience at The Nag 's Head a few hours before he ended up in hospital . |
| 7 | ‘ Stein crossed the border near Echternach in Luxembourg a few hours ago . |
| 8 | This is the same room where Jesus a few hours earlier had celebrated the last supper . |
| 9 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |
| 10 | It is clearly very important to make sure that at learn some of your visits are completely unhurried and timed to suit her convenience , for to many elderly people a few hours relaxing in the company of a son or daughter they love can be an oasis in the desert of their week if they live alone . |
| 11 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
| 12 | And , finally , we received two more dead CV12 power packs from the FRG at Soltau a few hours ago . ’ |
| 13 | They reached the lake a few hours later . |
| 14 | The city centre was cordoned off after fires were discovered in two stores a few hours before the Prime Minister , John Major , was to address a farmers conference 400 yards away . |
| 15 | A package of reforms to the criminal code , designed to improve Turkey 's human rights record , was approved by the Grand National Assembly early on April 12 and signed into law by President Turgut Özal a few hours later . |
| 16 | ‘ Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning , so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio a few hours later and deliver something that was believable and complete . ’ |
| 17 | If possible , introduce the female a few hours before the male , so she can explore and settle in in peace and quiet . |
| 18 | Mr Mekgwe was reportedly last seen in the company of three ANC men a few hours before he was due to give evidence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sometimes it 's worth going away for a while and letting her think she 's beaten you , and then coming back with the food a few hours later . |
| 21 | Said , ‘ I am not a very political politician , ’ and then proved it by singing ‘ My Darling Clementine ’ live on Irish TV a few hours after an IRA massacre . |
| 22 | ‘ You ordered me off your land a few hours ago . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 25 | Overcoming a certain lethargy we sailed for Oban a few hours later . |