Example sentences of "after a [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns . |
| 2 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 3 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 4 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |
| 5 | After a few hours in there the two women became ‘ as quiet and inoffensive beings , as ever breathed ’ . |
| 6 | After a few hours the butterflies can be released . |
| 7 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
| 8 | or 3,500 MN/m 2 after a few hours . |
| 9 | After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder . |
| 10 | staining first appears in r3 ( a ) and after a few hours is joined by staining in r5 ( b ) . |
| 11 | After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival . |
| 12 | Some stopped dividing after a few hours and remained generalised in form and in dense clusters . |
| 13 | After a few hours ' driving , we stop by a small lake brimming with clear water which has tumbled down from the escarpment through dense forest . |
| 14 | She consorted , these nights , with strangers — men who were temporarily vivid when she awoke but who faded as the day progressed until , after a few hours , they vanished entirely . |
| 15 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 16 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 17 | Visiting drivers to , after a few hours on the motorway , are hardly going to be looking for a zebra crossing on such a busy dual carriageway . |
| 18 | People will say , you know , this person , and they wo n't mention their names , after a few hours together , we start to get to grips with the nature of influencing , and the names start falling out . |