Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 2 | For the few hours , the day or few days ' duration of the " event " , their labour force at the location in question increases many times in size . |
| 3 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 4 | That 's roughly about the same hours as the government 's just decided to spend on sending the Parent 's Charter to every household in Britain , I think that 's gon na cost over two million as well . |
| 5 | After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns . |
| 6 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 7 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 8 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |
| 9 | After a few hours in there the two women became ‘ as quiet and inoffensive beings , as ever breathed ’ . |
| 10 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
| 11 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
| 12 | or 3,500 MN/m 2 after a few hours . |
| 13 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |
| 14 | staining first appears in r3 ( a ) and after a few hours is joined by staining in r5 ( b ) . |
| 15 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 16 | Some stopped dividing after a few hours and remained generalised in form and in dense clusters . |
| 17 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 18 | She consorted , these nights , with strangers — men who were temporarily vivid when she awoke but who faded as the day progressed until , after a few hours , they vanished entirely . |
| 19 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 20 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 21 | Visiting drivers to , after a few hours on the motorway , are hardly going to be looking for a zebra crossing on such a busy dual carriageway . |
| 22 | People will say , you know , this person , and they wo n't mention their names , after a few hours together , we start to get to grips with the nature of influencing , and the names start falling out . |
| 23 | Because of the many hours of sitting that we do , we lose the ability to squat or even the ability to sit down without falling down . |
| 24 | Think of the many hours when the two of them are closeted in the den . |
| 25 | He walked into the corridor , tiredness suddenly overcoming him with the prospect of a few hours off , and very nearly knocked Catherine Crane over in his preoccupation . |
| 26 | Should a court be prevented from hearing and acting on evidence that , despite the lapse of a few hours , a defendant 's temperament was such that it is fair to say that he or she was provoked to lose self-control , and that it was not calculated revenge ? |
| 27 | Some were parents enjoying the luxury of a few hours away from their children , who were fully occupied with games and competitions at the miniclub . |
| 28 | These eruptions give rise to rocks known as ignimbrites , and they are so powerful that tens of cubic kilometres of ignimbrite can be erupted in nuee ardente-like incandescent clouds in the space of a few hours or days . |
| 29 | During the space of a few hours , a one-metre thickness of ash accumulated in some parts of the town which were only a few hundred metres away from the active vent and many house roofs collapsed under the weight . |
| 30 | His cider sodden mind was causing him to treat his beloved motorcycle in a way he would never have dreamed of a few hours before . |