Example sentences of "[adj] hours [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall ever remember the two or three hours conversation I had with him that beautiful May morning he died , before I woke the rest of the family . |
| 2 | At 2 or 3 hours notice we may have to go to Manchester ; the women ca n't do that . |
| 3 | ‘ Most of them have never held anything more dangerous than a knife and fork before but after just nine hours training they are doing really well , ’ he said . |
| 4 | In five hours time it would be midnight . |
| 5 | Despite making reasonable progress , difficulties prevented the team from making the summit and after 24 hours effort they returned to base camp . |
| 6 | After nearly seven hours deliberation they 've so far failed to reach a unanimous verdict . |