Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] a few hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | With excellent huts only a few hours walk from our tent and the possibility of traversing passes between them , we were spoilt for choice . |
| 2 | In fact , I noted them in my diary only a few hours afterwards . ’ |
| 3 | You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago . |
| 4 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 5 | The pirate died first , then Hunter only a few hours later . |
| 6 | A printing firm has gone into liquidation , giving staff just a few hours ' notice they were losing their jobs . |
| 7 | Not only can marked variation in embryonic development be observed even within litters but , during such a dynamic phase of morphogenetic change , embryos only a few hours apart in age may be significantly different in their developmental state . |
| 8 | The figures are published on a day when arsonists destroyed part of a shopping centre just a few hours after thieves stealing television sets had also tried to start a fire . |
| 9 | People were crying in shock and smoke billowing above Pearse , Talbot and Parnell streets marking the spots where a few hours earlier , country women and men had hurried past to catch trains home for the weekend . |
| 10 | Indeed , MTB 74 , with her torpedo tubes on the foredeck instead of amidships , was ready for sea only a few hours before the raid , her crew having changed one of her five engines . |
| 11 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 12 | FOUR of the five gunmen who had been occupying the Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose , Costa Rica , for nearly two weeks left the country yesterday a few hours after the siege had ended peacefully . |
| 13 | That 's what got to me : Miss Mallender only a few hours dead — and Morpurgo smiling . ’ |