Example sentences of "few hours the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the next few hours the water would rise , and his body would turn to ice as he was submerged , inch by inch , in the merciless waters of the Thames . |
| 2 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 3 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 4 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 5 | After a few hours the speed of change slowed . |
| 6 | For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds . |