Example sentences of "[verb] a few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Island of Taiwan is situated several hundred miles off the Chinese mainland , west of Hong Kong ; Japan lies a few hours ’ plane ride north-west while the Philippines rest a similar distance southwards . |
| 2 | There were women with shopping baskets and men in working clothes , the Evening Standard reported a few hours later , as well as a number of boys and girls . |
| 3 | Why do n't you wait a few hours and see if he gets what you need from Blagg ? ’ |
| 4 | Now , Roger , I beg you , let us go back to our chamber , warm ourselves , snatch a few hours of sleep and tomorrow , as we break fast in the hall , I shall confront the murderer . ’ |
| 5 | Last night 's shooting occurred a few hours after the previous victim , a former Irish Republican Army man shot dead by the Provos for allegedly turning police informer , was buried in Belfast . |
| 6 | ELVIS PRESLEY 'S last letter , written a few hours before he died , was to an elderly woman he looked on almost as a mother . |
| 7 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
| 8 | If they take their work home with them , maybe they 'll do a few hours ' work off the mains . |
| 9 | He was ambushed a few hours later and shot dead . |
| 10 | I am doing my best , but I wish a few more would give a few hours of their time . , . |
| 11 | Wait a few hours . |
| 12 | Thinking now of the battles she had fought with her own children , especially her daughter , Margharita , she felt a pang of remorse over the woman she had buried a few hours earlier . |
| 13 | Volunteers need only provide a few hours of their time a week to be trained as a tutor . |
| 14 | Can anyone recommend somebody who would like a few hours a week domestic cleaning ( and maybe occasional catering work ? ) |
| 15 | Although Creggan preferred in such weather to keep inland he had a natural preference for the coast and on calmer days when the wind abated he would spend a few hours along the shore . |
| 16 | They actually reached Klagenfurt a few hours after us , so we could secure the best buildings and put sentries in them . |
| 17 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 18 | De Gaulle himself arrived a few hours later . |
| 19 | I climbed into my sleeping bag and slipped from one dreamworld into another , waking a few hours later to drift down through birdsong in the cool forest to the jarring heat and bustle of Aviemore . |
| 20 | But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated . |
| 21 | Could you spare a few hours a month to be a secretary or chairman of a group , a Panda keeper , or trading officer ? |
| 22 | LAST WEEK I WANDERED off , rather against my better judgment , to kill a few hours at a thing called the Country Living Fair . |
| 23 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
| 24 | He watches the ball game — ‘ I could n't miss the ( New York ) Giants ; they 're my favourite team , ’ he would say later — sleeps a few hours , then drives 250 miles to Toronto . |
| 25 | Having found a comfortable Gasthof in the suburb of Spitalhof , I passed a few hours wandering the old town . |
| 26 | ‘ But when the young folk of the dale were given a few hours off we certainly made the most of it . |
| 27 | After the business of the day and the more important business of the evening meal , the inhabitants of Roziac were enjoying a few hours of leisure in the open air . |
| 28 | He put a couple of lamb chops under the grill , made a green salad and prepared to enjoy a few hours of solitude before the intrusion of Rickards and his preoccupations . |
| 29 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 30 | And the £24,000 motor did n't look so new when it was found scratched a few hours later in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |