Example sentences of "a [adj] hours in " in BNC.
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1 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
2 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
3 | Sometimes it happens that after a number of successive doses like this , the patient will have the beginnings of an aggravation : the medicine should be stopped for two to four days ( or a few hours in acute disease ) and in order to continue treatment you want to give the remedy now in a more diluted form : from the first cup ( not the bottle ) take one teaspoonful and dilute it in another cup , and one teaspoonful of this solution should be given to the patient . |
4 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
5 | After a few hours in there the two women became ‘ as quiet and inoffensive beings , as ever breathed ’ . |
6 | The first weekend I spend a few hours in a boat making a note of the various depths , the location of weedbeds , and any shelves or basins which could prove attractive to fish . |
7 | Snow settled for a few hours in the Dundee area , causing traffic problems . |
8 | It had flown but a few hours in his ownership , and it might be available for a feature in Pilot . |
9 | The only monoplane I had flown was a few hours in the 3 A.A.C.U. Magister . |
10 | You can work full-time , part-time or for a few hours in the evenings . |
11 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
12 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
13 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | To wash our dishes , for instance , requires placing them for a few hours in a rattan basket in the swift-flowing stream deflected through the kitchen to the left of our house . |
16 | Most of the houses in the village were quite large , with shutters which were only opened for a few hours in the mornings ; if there was a breeze long lace curtains could be seen gently moving . |
17 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
18 | I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’ |
19 | A few hours in Richard 's company was just the antidote she needed to Luke 's volatility . |
20 | Most of 'em do n't get used more than a few hours in the year . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | The earlier row was over a decision by magistrates in Aylesbury to let two offendors wipe out a thousand pounds in fines by spending a few hours in police cells . |
23 | By 10.30 he had gone down the full length of the corridor that ran past his office and he had then spent two and a half hours in H3 's laboratory . |
24 | The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas . |
25 | Before the exhibition opened on Monday , 11 March last , Mr Isherwood , ARPS , APAGB , an official appointed by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain , spent two and a half hours in Chapman Gallery carefully weighing and considering before he settled on the winners . |
26 | Mark came in with a very respectable time of three and a half hours in his first marathon . |
27 | We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea , an excellent shopping centre . |
28 | Wool sorters at Exeter worked " from the time of being able to discern the wool until the evening " , which amounted to about eight and a half hours in winter and twelve in summer . |
29 | As powerless as the train , we sat for three and a half hours in the dark — key phrase , that — before a locomotive of more elderly years arrived from Newcastle to give us a croggy . |
30 | Having seen him safely in hospital , though not in the best of health myself , I called at the poll tax office and waited one and a half hours in a very smoky atmosphere to have the summons withdrawn . |