Example sentences of "in [num] hours [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 2 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 3 | ‘ And in three hours we 'll be home , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 5 | In five hours she 'd be marking Miguel O'Brien — a gnat trying to curb an elephant . |
| 6 | Erm in twelve hours it will be half way round , so the position will be reversed . |
| 7 | stakes and in twenty-two hours I |
| 8 | ‘ In two hours we are at Pot'ma Transit . |
| 9 | Right it is a hundred miles from King 's Lynn to London , the train takes two hours to do the journey the train does not go at a constant speed , it speeds up sometimes and slows down at other times it also stops at stations on the way and on once of course as it , as it 's stopping it 's going more and more slowly and as it 's er moving off again it starts slowly and starts to go quickly but because it takes two hours in all the train goes a hundred miles in two hours we say its average speed for the journey is fifty miles per hour . |
| 10 | In two hours they ferried 22 people to high ground and to safety , and at 0900 they were released to return to the Portrush lifeboat which was still lying in Ballycastle Bay . |
| 11 | Its real speed changes during the journey sometimes it is more than fifty miles per hour , sometimes less but in two hours it goes the same distance as it would if its speed was fifty miles per hour all the time . |
| 12 | TWICE in 24 hours we 've been shown letters from Ossie Ardiles , written in the week of his barbaric departure . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 14 | In twenty-four hours she has been on a whistle-stop tour of three countries . |
| 15 | In twenty-four hours she had aged ten years . |