Example sentences of "[art] last few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simon Griffiths , a hospital spokesman , said last night : ‘ Mrs Barnett 's general condition has improved over the last few hours and her liver is functioning well . ’ |
| 2 | When a sergeant congratulated one section on the improvement in the language in the guard room over the last few hours when the field-worker had been present , one constable shouted , ‘ Fucking good job too , Sir ’ ( FN 2/2/87 , p. 6 ) , and the occupational culture of the station soon reasserted its typical forms of expression , which are widespread in all police forces and occupational cultures that are predominantly masculine and working class . |
| 3 | She 'd known John Delaney for about six months , but the last few hours had been the catalyst . |
| 4 | He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life . |
| 5 | It 's not always possible in London but a short walk might well get you away from the crown and give you a chance to loosen up your legs , contemplate the last few hours and consider how your body is feeling in general . |
| 6 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 7 | In the last few hours she 's moved house , but we 'll find her . |
| 8 | The helmet allowed us to have the last few hours of his life together before his airlift to hospital , and this would not have been possible otherwise . |
| 9 | The last few hours had so driven my off-duty life from my mind that , momentarily , I had no idea what she was getting at . |
| 10 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 11 | He moved slightly in the bed , and felt the warm , naked body beside him and smiled , remembering the last few hours . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's as if only the last few hours of my life were real . |
| 13 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 14 | Sickness rose , vying with the pain , as she found herself piecing together the last few hours of Mark 's life . |
| 15 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 16 | The last few hours had been simply hell . |
| 17 | Where had the ice-cold man of the last few hours gone ? |
| 18 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 19 | Her emotions seemed to have undergone a deep sea-change over the last few hours . |
| 20 | Up until this afternoon , it was on sale at HMV , but within the last few hours , they 've stopped selling it too . |
| 21 | They 're now desperatly trying to piece together the last few hours of her life . |
| 22 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |
| 23 | We have a last few hours in a freebie hotel . |