Example sentences of "[noun] only a [adj] hours " 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 | The pirate died first , then Hunter only a few hours later . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | That 's what got to me : Miss Mallender only a few hours dead — and Morpurgo smiling . ’ |