Example sentences of "just a [det] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Just a few hours ago we were dancing and enjoying ourselves but suddenly it had become a dance of death , ’ said a survivor . |
| 2 | In just a few hours , a doomed cell separates from its neighbours and shrinks , while its nucleus changes shape and fragments . |
| 3 | She too should find suitable work , and start with just a few hours , perhaps one or two days a week , before building up towards full-time work if she wishes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | You will find it much easier if you can bring yourself to take the very positive attitude that today the two of you are going to share just a few hours of life together : time that can never come again . |
| 6 | Dressing hurriedly , he dashed outside to find that , in just a few hours , the whole world had been transformed . |
| 7 | While our friends have made their new houses look good in just a few hours with a lick of paint , we 've had to put up new ceilings , repair skirting boards and hack off layers of old tiles . |
| 8 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 9 | But most MEPs say the parliament should be in Brussels where they have their offices , and have signed a lease-buy deal on a £171 million debating chamber in Brussels which involves a legal obligation of annual rent of £16.7 million and will now be used for just a few hours each year . |
| 10 | Both Thomas Cook and American Express aim to replace cheques within 24 hours , and Amex claims that most of its customers receive refunds within ‘ just a few hours ’ . |
| 11 | It can be difficult to justify spending a large large amount of course time on design , but asking colleagues in design institutions to recommend or teach a useful ( and usable ) subset of document design to occupy just a few hours is not likely to elicit an encouraging response . |
| 12 | Sit down at your machine with a cassette player and knit , following Diane 's clear and helpful explanations and in just a few hours YOU will be the master of your machine ! |
| 13 | Mountain ranges , the desert and Palm Springs are just a few hours ' drive away . |
| 14 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 15 | Just a few hours earlier British troops had been sent on to the streets of Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | So why not spare just a few hours for Amnesty International ? |
| 17 | She was followed just a few hours later by Pole who , like Wolsey before him , had remained to the end torn between his allegiance to his monarch and his obedience to his spiritual lord . |
| 18 | ‘ Just a few hours . ’ |
| 19 | Small areas of rot can be cut out and filled with two-part epoxy resin , which should give a strong permanent bond , with the advantage that several layers can be applied in just a few hours , and then easily sanded to a fine finish . |
| 20 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 21 | ’ But the funniest thing of all , really , was that until just a few hours ago Eddy had been , and now he was not . |
| 22 | Just a few hours earlier , we had arrived in real twentieth-century style . |
| 23 | After just a few hours sleep , I half awoke to a bang on the window . |
| 24 | However , within just a few hours , as the region continued to collapse , the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart . |
| 25 | Just a few hours ago this had been exactly what she wanted . |
| 26 | I 've only had to carry a pistol once , just a few hours . |
| 27 | I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’ |
| 28 | Just a few hours , I would say before , less than twenty four hours before they went . |
| 29 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 30 | And she had n't honestly thought he had — until just a few hours ago on the beach when he 'd said that this was goodbye . |