Example sentences of "[noun] a few hours [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he makes a lightning trip back on Concorde for Petit Loup in the Arc a few hours later . |
| 2 | She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms . |
| 3 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Stein crossed the border near Echternach in Luxembourg a few hours ago . |
| 5 | This is the same room where Jesus a few hours earlier had celebrated the last supper . |
| 6 | As they spoke , neither of them reminded each other of their passion a few hours earlier ; it was as if it had never happened . |
| 7 | And , finally , we received two more dead CV12 power packs from the FRG at Soltau a few hours ago . ’ |
| 8 | They reached the lake a few hours later . |
| 9 | A package of reforms to the criminal code , designed to improve Turkey 's human rights record , was approved by the Grand National Assembly early on April 12 and signed into law by President Turgut Özal a few hours later . |
| 10 | ‘ Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning , so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio a few hours later and deliver something that was believable and complete . ’ |
| 11 | Sometimes it 's worth going away for a while and letting her think she 's beaten you , and then coming back with the food a few hours later . |
| 12 | ‘ You ordered me off your land a few hours ago . |
| 13 | It had something of the squeals of the boar beneath our house a few hours earlier , whose execution we had paid for , but declined to witness . |
| 14 | Overcoming a certain lethargy we sailed for Oban a few hours later . |