Example sentences of "[vb pp] a few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | ELVIS PRESLEY 'S last letter , written a few hours before he died , was to an elderly woman he looked on almost as a mother . |
| 2 | He was ambushed a few hours later and shot dead . |
| 3 | Thinking now of the battles she had fought with her own children , especially her daughter , Margharita , she felt a pang of remorse over the woman she had buried a few hours earlier . |
| 4 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 5 | ‘ But when the young folk of the dale were given a few hours off we certainly made the most of it . |
| 6 | Muriel Brunton , 70 , was found a few hours after ‘ a ferocious attack ’ lying dead in the hall of her home in Haigh Road , Aspull , Wigan . |
| 7 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 8 | Her husband was arrested a few hours later . |
| 9 | Because Dustin had eaten a few hours previously , the anaesthetist had to insert a tube in his mouth to stop him choking on his own vomit . |
| 10 | They can be taken a few hours before sleep is required in the new time zone . |
| 11 | This impression was tragically confirmed a few hours later when news came through that HMS Sheffield had been sunk . |
| 12 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 13 | Baby sea-lions have been born at Belfast before but have always been born dead or have only survived a few hours . |
| 14 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 15 | He was released a few hours later . |