Example sentences of "[adj] hours the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The funeral passed off without incident , and by 1630 hours the majority of the platoon was able to return to Omagh , leaving a section under the command of the platoon commander to cover the post-funeral gathering in the church hall . |
| 2 | At about 0230 hours the fishing vessel-cum-yacht Guiding Lights , which had figured on our suspect list since 1974 , but had never been sighted in British waters , sailed into the trap , heaving-to off Talland Bay , about half a mile off shore . |
| 3 | After some hours the storm passed , and I saw land to the south . |
| 4 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 5 | Within the next few hours the water would rise , and his body would turn to ice as he was submerged , inch by inch , in the merciless waters of the Thames . |
| 6 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 7 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 8 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 9 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 10 | For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds . |
| 11 | By 1500 hours the atmosphere in the British Medical Facility was frenetic . |
| 12 | Promptly at 0500 hours the ship sprung to life once more . |
| 13 | For the past six hours the downpour had been continuous and torrential . |
| 14 | Personal and telephone bookings can be made at the Cashier 's Office , University of Ulster , Coleraine during the following hours The Cashier 's Office also accepts postal bookings . |
| 15 | After forty-eight hours the egg has developed into a free-swimming and feeding larva . |
| 16 | Every three hours the Met Assistant had to plot a chart — that is , working from the coded symbols sent on the teleprinter , draw up on a large blank map of Great Britain the weather at that time over the whole country . |
| 17 | In the following three hours the hospital took 123 victims . |
| 18 | For the next three hours the motorbike led them a nightmare chase over more than a hundred kilometres of mountain roads that were often little more than channels covered by scree and loose gravel , furrowed by rain-water and ridged by surfacing strata of rock . |
| 19 | and if er , what they 're trying to do is so that you work say twenty three hours the class contact , you , you ca n't be averaged for more than two hours a week , so you need twenty three hours for the first two terms |
| 20 | By 1030 hours the Wall patrol has completed its escort task and is free to assist an Engineer Corporal who has just had a collision in his car with an East German in the Soviet Sector . |
| 21 | At 23–59 hours the Battalion was ordered to move again . |
| 22 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 23 | In about eight to twelve hours the cheese will be firm enough to be turned into a deepish glass dish or large soup plate . |
| 24 | By 1800 hours the team are back home , watching the television . |
| 25 | Within 24–48 hours the increase may be a thousandfold . |
| 26 | She slept at last , but in the small hours the nightmare returned . |
| 27 | In the purgatory of the small hours the person |
| 28 | During one complete charge cycle of 96 hours the charger consumes approximately 1½ worth of electricity , so it is not expensive to run . |
| 29 | By 1130 hours the load was complete and slipped , bound for Netley Buoys Where the Puma is anchored . |
| 30 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |