Example sentences of "a few hours [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’ |
| 2 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I think I obscurely felt relief that I would continue to live alone , to have at least a few hours of the day and night when I could try to regain one of my mixed-up selves . |
| 5 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 6 | Also in the house were two children , no doubt lucky to be alive , as Mrs Dyer usually despatched her charges within a few hours of receiving them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Within a few hours of becoming queen Anne wrote to the Dutch States-General setting out the basis of her policy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Its tail will shrink within a few hours of departure . |
| 13 | The first organisms , which appear within a few hours of the pool forming , are bacteria , as well as tiny single celled plants and animals called algae and protozoa respectively . |
| 14 | If you live in the Wallingford area and have a railway interest perhaps you might like to join this enthusiastic group and give them a few hours of your time . |
| 15 | Hari returned to the attack , ‘ A few hours of your time , that 's all . ’ |
| 16 | In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 19 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | A few hours of oblivion probably , but failing that , Faber . |
| 22 | Within only a few hours of the big bang , the production of helium and other elements would have stopped . |
| 23 | She still had a few hours of useful painting time left , but now she could not concentrate . |
| 24 | A few hours of relaxation away from the whirl of London for both of them , I suppose . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | It will only take a few hours of your time . |
| 27 | A few hours of your time can make the Fund a fortune so please phone Jane Milligan . |
| 28 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
| 29 | But always , for that one first moment , there was a hope , a promise of a few hours of enchantment . |
| 30 | The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election . |