Example sentences of "[conj] a [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
| 2 | ‘ And here I was , thinking that a few hours leave was on the cards . ’ |
| 3 | Newly qualified nurses are expected to receive an orientation and induction programme appropriate to their appointments , followed by a consolidation period for a minimum period of three months , when it is recommended that a few hours each week be set aside for learning periods either with other newly qualified staff or as self-directed learning . |
| 4 | There was n't the slightest sign that a few hours earlier she had collapsed in paroxysms of tears and seriously considered calling the whole thing off . |
| 5 | The police would have to know about this visit , of course ; her conscience persistently reminded her that she should have informed Harris already but she silenced it by telling herself that a few hours would make no difference . |
| 6 | I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old . |
| 7 | Thus the warming and the movement of water help to give rise to climate , which is immensely complex ; and the day-to-day fluctuations which are known as ‘ weather ’ are extraordinarily difficult to predict in detail , more than a few hours ahead . |
| 8 | If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found . |
| 9 | My son did n't live more than a few hours , but I can feel for the parents of that little girl . |
| 10 | I get up fairly early , as you know , so he would n't be in it more than a few hours . ’ |
| 11 | So why , then , does her depression return whenever she ventures away-from home for more than a few hours ? |
| 12 | Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day . |
| 13 | He could n't have had more than a few hours ’ sleep . |
| 14 | Temperature tolerance to higher temperatures by even the hardiest rockpool creatures is within such narrow limits that if the water warms up to over 2° above that in which the animal is naturally found for more than a few hours , the animal will surely die . |
| 15 | We were due at Chauk , an old field town , next day and Captain Tizzard advised me to take Rachel to the hospital there , but warned me that he could not delay his sailing for more than a few hours . |
| 16 | Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other . |
| 17 | Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time . |
| 18 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 19 | Where " events " last longer than a few hours or one day , the need for order in the relationship is increased . |
| 20 | A battery 's charge-holding capacity can also be seriously reduced if it is kept in a discharged state for more than a few hours . |
| 21 | The spermicide did n't stay hostile to sperm for more than a few hours . |
| 22 | Most of 'em do n't get used more than a few hours in the year . |
| 23 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |
| 24 | ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’ |
| 25 | All accounted for and two and a half hours to spare . |
| 26 | At one stage the average time of the five daytime trains between Euston and Glasgow was over five and a half hours . |
| 27 | P&O European Ferries ( 0304 203388 ) has five sailings a day in each direction from Dover to Zeebrugge : crossing time four and a half hours . |
| 28 | P&O has two sailings a day from Felixstowe to Zeebrugge , crossing time five and a half hours . |
| 29 | In a long match like this it is really difficult to play your best for three and a half hours . ’ |
| 30 | EVEN WITH half a dozen arias omitted , the Opera North production of Mozart 's La Finta Giardiniera makes a long evening , three and a half hours including interval . |