Example sentences of "in a few hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 2 | Page 29 Sterling slumps : The pound posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost six pfennigs in a few hours to close at DM2.9737 . |
| 3 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 4 | An Ajdabiya shaikh needed in Hawari could fly there from Benghazi in a few hours . |
| 5 | The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’ |
| 6 | Either way , a whole house-shell could be put up in a few hours by a few successive foam-formings of the main walls and pillars . |
| 7 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 8 | That person is a menace to everyone but he may well think that , in a few hours ' time , he 'll be back to normal and no harm will be done . |
| 9 | Also , a truce between the Provisionals and British authorities was due to begin in a few hours . |
| 10 | Forward scouts came back to inform that the English might had reached Cheswick , a mere six miles to the south , and its vanguard would be before Berwick in a few hours . |
| 11 | A little lower , a white dart seared across the top of the sky , outrunning the night , overtaking the sun , crossing in a few hours an ocean that was once the edge of the world … . |
| 12 | In a few hours , you will find the pollen dropping and you can proceed as before . |
| 13 | I be they 've never played Turrican or Creatures otherwise they 'd be gobsmacked , especially the console owners who pay about £40 for games that can often be completed in a few hours ! |
| 14 | Now anyone with a spreadsheet should be able to do them in a few hours . |
| 15 | Even he , however , confessed that it was difficult to control men who had not been accustomed to organization , whose " idea was that once a union was formed everything should be put right in a few hours " . |
| 16 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 17 | By simply amplifying the fragment of interest it can be characterised in agarose gels , usually by visual inspection , in a few hours . |
| 18 | And the first deadline for applications for B T three shares expires in a few hours time . |
| 19 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 20 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll make land in a few hours , ’ he told her . |
| 22 | We have just witnessed an old lady 's strangling and a silly tailor imprisoned in squalor who , in a few hours ’ time , will be burnt horribly to death . |
| 23 | Again my mind wandered from my polishing and back onto the job I would be doing in a few hours . |
| 24 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 25 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |
| 26 | I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours . |
| 27 | It was the voices coming from the little boxes , and the concept of man flying between America and England in a few hours , that he found difficult to grasp . |
| 28 | It will have to be the shortened version , I 'm afraid , but you 'll be surprised how much we can cover in a few hours . ’ |
| 29 | In a few hours time in Toronto Lynn Gibson will be racing for Britain in the 800 metres … |
| 30 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |