Example sentences of "it was [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a shame to wake the boy , but it was twelve hours now since he had eaten . |
| 2 | On the Queensferry bypass , on the interchange there it was five hours . |
| 3 | It was 26 hours , actually ; the next day 's train was even later . |
| 4 | It was nine hours before they found Isadore Johnson 's body — just fifty yards from his front door . |
| 5 | It was two hours before he felt sufficiently recovered to stop at a phone box and report in . |
| 6 | It was two hours later when they returned to Leitzig 's office . |
| 7 | It was two hours later , and the sprawling house was still loud with laughter and voices , and crammed with people . |
| 8 | I think it was two hours for me I had to plough that one . |
| 9 | It was two hours before the Home Office pathologist arrived . |
| 10 | There was no proper funeral , as there had been no proper wedding ceremony ; they simply hauled the waterlogged body onto a bonfire of driftwood , and even though the sea wind at dawn had made the fire hot enough to break the stones of the beach , it was six hours before the body was gone , and then they had to wait a whole day before they could rake the ashes for his bones and send them to her . |
| 11 | It was six hours before party chiefs denied the report , adding to the impression that Mr Mellor was being undermined by his colleagues . |
| 12 | It was six hours since they had shared their meagre ration of black rice , boiled as usual in a rusting can on the communal fire inside the barrack hut . |
| 13 | It was 0134 hours , just four minutes behind the planned time of impact . |
| 14 | It was four hours before even the body could be removed . |
| 15 | It was four hours later when they woke to find him at the foot of the bed saying : ‘ I 've got a gun and I 'm going to shoot you . ’ |
| 16 | It was four hours later when Madeleine managed to slip in to Jeanne 's cell . |
| 17 | Two sizeable works had gone in under two hours , although it was forty-eight hours before new outbreaks ceased . |
| 18 | It was forty-eight hours before we got Vulcan back . |
| 19 | He took the train down , even though it was twenty-six hours . |
| 20 | It was eight hours of solid drinking which lost me my charity , my film company , my reputation and my dignity . |
| 21 | They reduced their time in bed by 30 minutes every two weeks until it was down to 6.5 hours , then by 30 minutes every three weeks until it was 5 hours , and finally by 30 minutes every 4 weeks . |
| 22 | well , well Vicky reckoned it was ten hours from Calais |
| 23 | It was 2310 hours on 19 February 1942 . |
| 24 | It was some hours before he had his wish . |
| 25 | Although it was morning and the quietest time of the day the air was already pungent with the smell of curry and spices , reminding Massingham that it was some hours since breakfast and that there was no certainty when he would get his lunch . |
| 26 | Cows and calves inside were led to safety , and it was some hours later that firemen discovered a body in the debris . |
| 27 | It was three hours ’ sleep — maybe five on a good day . ’ |
| 28 | He said it was three hours too long and was full of boring statistics and graphics . |
| 29 | It was 28 hours since he had driven the clapped-out Ford Capri into the street , and counted himself lucky to find a space to park that was pretty near opposite the front door from which the man had emerged with his two small girls . |