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 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 .
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