Example sentences of "few hours [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Mary served behind the counter at Bacon 's for a few hours per week .
2 The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge .
3 I spent a few hours at house in Delhi , before leaving on Sunday 28th November to catch the 03.45 flight to London .
4 He put a couple of lamb chops under the grill , made a green salad and prepared to enjoy a few hours of solitude before the intrusion of Rickards and his preoccupations .
5 A few hours of oblivion probably , but failing that , Faber .
6 Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques .
7 He suspected that some of his departmental heads , particularly BH Morgan , the Works Office Engineer , and Stephen Mansell , the Maintenance Superintendent , would have preferred a more relaxed setting in his private sitting room next door , the low , comfortable chairs , a few hours of chat with no set agenda , perhaps a drink together afterwards in a local pub .
8 The police would have to be told about Zoe 's murder tomorrow , but tonight he had a few hours of peace .
9 This will probably involve a social worker in an area team putting together a package that might consist of a few hours of home care , a couple of days of day care , and night sitting for one night .
10 Women had all the constraints of family life to cope with ; children at school , shopping and housekeeping , but no sympathy was expressed by male members of the group as to the comparative hardness of the women 's lives in terms of demands on them , such as few hours of sleep .
11 Now , Roger , I beg you , let us go back to our chamber , warm ourselves , snatch a few hours of sleep and tomorrow , as we break fast in the hall , I shall confront the murderer . ’
12 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 .
13 Our inability to standardise the timing of the initial packed cell volume is unfortunate as large changes in plasma volume occur in the first few hours of life .
14 A few hours of work at night would be a small price to pay for lolling about one of the most beautiful and secluded vacation spots in the world during the day .
15 Large corporations in business make pitiful efforts to persuade men to attend lectures on retirement , as if a few hours of instruction could shield a man from the cold wind of eternity .
16 Its tail will shrink within a few hours of departure .
17 After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends .
18 ( 193 ) In Bonn , the few hours of talk and the banquets with West German leaders were made to produce , by all accounts , the information he needed .
19 Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning .
20 A few hours of relaxation away from the whirl of London for both of them , I suppose .
21 After the business of the day and the more important business of the evening meal , the inhabitants of Roziac were enjoying a few hours of leisure in the open air .
22 In our first few hours of membership we are highly attuned to some of the assumptions .
23 But always , for that one first moment , there was a hope , a promise of a few hours of enchantment .
24 Another few hours of training .
25 So why not spare just a few hours for Amnesty International ?
26 Allow to dry for a few hours before painting with gold food colouring .
27 Get a good few hours before light .
28 We were awoken early in the night , a few hours before dawn , by sharp screams , shouted orders , and the sound of running feet .
29 I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’
30 He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support .
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