Example sentences of "[det] hours ' [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had no office in his old college , but inhabited an office on sufferance , for his few hours ' part-time teaching . |
| 2 | If the sociologist regards the interview schedule ( and , as we shall discuss later , the questionnaire ) in this way then he will not rush blithely into the field with a schedule which is the product of just a few hours ' odd jottings on rough paper . |
| 3 | A last cup of coffee and I left ; back to H and T's in time for a few hours ' fitful sleep ; then up and away , run to the station by Aunt Antonia . |
| 4 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But after several hours ' hard canoeing , when the Hokule'a was due west of the island of Lanai , in the channel known as Kealaikahiki , or ‘ The Path to Tahiti ’ , a vicious swell blew up . |