Example sentences of "hours ' [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 2 | We see Absolon submit to nature once more , when despite his reported courtly wakefulness in his desire for Alison ( 3373 ) , he decides upon a couple of hours ' nap before his waking and playing on the fateful night ( 3685 – 6 ) . |
| 3 | After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns . |
| 4 | Each of the two sub-units of the British contingent manning the BZ ( Buffer Zone ) has sent in a sitrep detailing the previous twenty-four hours ' activity in the BZ . |
| 5 | His senior secretary had been instructed to cancel his engagements for that evening to give him a few hours ' peace before a six-month period in which his diary was entirely filled . |
| 6 | The game has been adjourned after six hours ' play with Short sealing the 61st move in an envelope . |
| 7 | After four hours ' play of the sixth round Martin showed the first sign of faltering as he slipped into a bad position against fellow Australian grandmaster Ian Rogers , who is in joint second place with Miles on 4/5 in third place . |
| 8 | Their huts were 12 hours ' journey from the nearest main road , and the occasional and always unexpected arrival of the maximo lider was a cause for rejoicing and an indication that somebody , somewhere actually cared for them and took an interest in their otherwise isolated and neglected lives . |
| 9 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 10 | Not a bad couple of hours ' detecting by any means , but I was disappointed with the lack of jewellery finds . |
| 11 | Or else if you 're driving up to Stranraer it 's a , it 's a good three and half hours ' drive plus your petrol . |
| 12 | Only a few hours ' drive by dirt highway from Serra Pelada , the government was pouring investment into the construction of an immense mining project called Carajas , a mountain range of solid iron . |
| 13 | Unlike most birdwatchers , I am lucky enough to live less than four hours ' drive from their regular winter home — a wildfowl marsh constructed by one of the Maharajahs of Bharatpur . |
| 14 | The new gold rush revolves round the so-called Mother Lode , in the lower foothills of the Sierra Nevada , about two hours ' drive from San Francisco . |
| 15 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |
| 16 | On the Saturday before our departure our group was sent off for a day 's grape picking at Puyloubier , the rest home for injured and retired former legionnaires , in the foothills of Provence , about two hours ' drive from Aubagne . |
| 17 | Pattaya is approximately 2 hours ' drive from Bangkok on the Gulf of Siam . |
| 18 | Of the last ten World Championships , four have seen the slalom site several hours ' drive from the WWR venue and it will happen again in 1995 with Nottingham and Bala . |
| 19 | If they take their work home with them , maybe they 'll do a few hours ' work off the mains . |
| 20 | It was only a vote in the Commons at 11 p.m. that brought the evening to an end and then she returned to Downing Street for a few hours ' work on her boxes before turning in . |
| 21 | She normally did this quietly in bed before getting up and almost invariably began with an early breakfast followed by three or four hours ' work on her current novel . |
| 22 | Now and then , Kitty would volunteer to do a couple of hours ' work on the barrow , but once she had eaten her way through the day 's profits she would soon disappear . |
| 23 | The Green Form scheme will provide two hours ' work by a solicitor on a case ( more with an extension ) , but the solicitor can not recover the cost of appearing before a tribunal to argue a case under this component of legal aid . |
| 24 | The supply of domestic staff in Britain had dwindled after the First World War , when former servants found better paid employment for fewer hours ' work in offices and factories . |
| 25 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 26 | Juniors must be paid appropriately for the hours that they work : if they are getting only three hours ' rest at night they are working the equivalent of a partial shift and should be paid accordingly . |
| 27 | He never slept much before combat ; that was why he had caught three hours ' rest during the afternoon . |
| 28 | Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn . |
| 29 | I have to say I prefer the four hour cos I can get eight hours ' taping on mine . |
| 30 | On April 28th the Community agreed to lift the ban on most of the East European countries which were prepared to give 48 hours ' warning before exporting animals and to accept quarantine periods of 14 days . |