Example sentences of "[prep] [num] hour [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | And for eight hours she devoted herself to sufferers and staff — smiling , chatting and listening . |
2 | She said : ‘ On one day , the water ran dirty for eight hours it was impossible to drink , you could n't make tea and washing was filthy . |
3 | For forty hours he had not slept , and for nine had been in the thickest of the fighting . |
4 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
5 | A little after 0530 hours she was 45 miles ( 72km ) from the estuary , when she crossed the tracks of the Wolfe-Mowe destroyers , sent out earlier that night to sweep for mines that the Germans thought had been laid by the British force . |
6 | After three hours we looked for land . |
7 | After two hours we were dismissed upstairs , only to find our rooms wrecked again . |
8 | We gave up after two hours it was too cold |
9 | After two hours I began to wonder if he had stitched me up and then , worse , whether he was back at the flat with Alison . |
10 | After two hours she no longer believed that ordinary delays were keeping her daughter , who , according to her mother , was usually very punctilious about telling her if she was going to be late and where she was going as she knew her mother worried . |
11 | After twenty-four hours she was so hungry that she dived her pale pink nose into the bucket instead of at him . |
12 | " After seven hours we arrived in Ekondo Jundu , a village in a forest clearing , where only a few outsiders had been seen before . |
13 | As we descended it became increasingly hot , and in the space of two hours we had dropped from rolling grassy hills to a sandy , semi-desert plain . |
14 | For three hours we worked and drank , worked and ate , worked and packed . |
15 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
16 | erm , but , you see , they would of been the most aggravating little gits there , because as soon as they found out , they all started messing about then , for three hours it was on , could you imagine sitting in there with them lot for three hours ? |
17 | For three hours I was sitting in a dressing gown . |
18 | And anything you do above forty hours you can extra for ? |
19 | For ten hours he watches the lovely squirrel lips , the high , paysanne cheekbones , the smoky eyes , the darkly glowing hair , the nervously crossed legs , the langoustine fingers , the half-risen , brioche breasts . |
20 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
21 | Within eight hours she had developed central abdominal pain , vomiting , and distension . |
22 | But within 12 hours she was dead . |
23 | Somerset won the toss and batted , but within 1¾ hours they were bowled out for 88 — this after 60 had been made for the loss of only one wicket . |
24 | We feel very strongly about freedom of expression , so when [ in 1989 ] the NEA withdrew its grant to Artist 's Space , within forty-eight hours we gave them $10,000 to replace it . |
25 | So that 's within six hours you would have worked your way through more than half of your compliment of armed officers ? |
26 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
27 | ‘ And in three hours we 'll be home , ’ he said . |
28 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
29 | If staff are arriving before 0800 hours and leaving before 1515 hours they should complete a manual adjustment form for Friday 11 December 1992 in the normal way excluding any starting and finishing times . |
30 | In five hours she 'd be marking Miguel O'Brien — a gnat trying to curb an elephant . |