Example sentences of "than [art] few hour " in BNC.

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1 Choosing this date also allows Balboa and his company a little breathing space : they can spend two full days marching from the unpleasantness in Quareca to the summits of the coastal range — rather more reasonable a period than the few hours that elapse if we believe the earlier date .
2 I was obsessed by new clothes to the extent that I 'd lost interest in something if it was more than a few hours old .
3 Thus the warming and the movement of water help to give rise to climate , which is immensely complex ; and the day-to-day fluctuations which are known as ‘ weather ’ are extraordinarily difficult to predict in detail , more than a few hours ahead .
4 If he disappeared for more than a few hours she became frantic and ran to the Zborowskis ' apartment in the Rue Joseph Bara to ask for news , and almost lived there until he was eventually found .
5 My son did n't live more than a few hours , but I can feel for the parents of that little girl .
6 I get up fairly early , as you know , so he would n't be in it more than a few hours . ’
7 So why , then , does her depression return whenever she ventures away-from home for more than a few hours ?
8 Smith himself insisted that his other commitments did not interfere with his mathematics , as that demanded a concentration too great to be maintained for more than a few hours a day .
9 He could n't have had more than a few hours ’ sleep .
10 Temperature tolerance to higher temperatures by even the hardiest rockpool creatures is within such narrow limits that if the water warms up to over 2° above that in which the animal is naturally found for more than a few hours , the animal will surely die .
11 We were due at Chauk , an old field town , next day and Captain Tizzard advised me to take Rachel to the hospital there , but warned me that he could not delay his sailing for more than a few hours .
12 Do n't worry , Billy , I wo n't stay more than a few hours and by that time I 'll know one way or the other .
13 Hearing people are members of the dominant culture , who usually wish to preserve their hearing status and whose length of stay among deaf people is often no more than a few hours at a time .
14 For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours .
15 Where " events " last longer than a few hours or one day , the need for order in the relationship is increased .
16 A battery 's charge-holding capacity can also be seriously reduced if it is kept in a discharged state for more than a few hours .
17 The spermicide did n't stay hostile to sperm for more than a few hours .
18 Most of 'em do n't get used more than a few hours in the year .
19 When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm .
20 ‘ The barrow now belongs to you , so never let it or the pitch out of your sight for more than a few hours at a time . ’
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