Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [art] few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But Springbok officials and security officers at the club gave a different version of the incident which occurred just a few hours after the team had arrived . |
| 3 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 4 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |
| 5 | The attack came only a few hours after the Thai Interior Minister , Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi , had issued a " last warning " to the Myanman military to withdraw all its troops from the Thai side of the border . |
| 6 | The double explosion came just a few hours after a bomb exploded at Woodside Park tube station . |
| 7 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 8 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 9 | It could cross the open sea , and land on the enemy coast small groups of men who , in raids lasting perhaps a few hours or , at most , a day or two , could do much damage to both enemy property and morale . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A post-mortem on Allan McKay showed that he probably died only a few hours after leaving home . |
| 12 | She was followed just a few hours later by Pole who , like Wolsey before him , had remained to the end torn between his allegiance to his monarch and his obedience to his spiritual lord . |
| 13 | The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge . |
| 14 | However , in Billson v Residential Apartments Ltd [ 1991 ] 3 WLR 264 the Court of Appeal accepted peaceable re-entry had taken place although factual possession lasted only a few hours . |
| 15 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
| 16 | Voting had been suspended only a few hours after polling began , because of " premeditated acts of sabotage " , according to Ismaila Nimaga , Minister of Public Security and Territorial Administration . |
| 17 | Many have only a few hours to spare , but they enjoy helping in this way . |
| 18 | When you find you have only a few hours to spare you can choose the best swim for that particular period . |
| 19 | I know that I have only a few hours left to live , but I can feel my loved ones near me , and I welcome death . |
| 20 | The life-shortening effect in LAWER is claimed to be ‘ smaller than that in euthanasia because the patients usually have only a few hours or days to live ’ . |
| 21 | It can be difficult to justify spending a large large amount of course time on design , but asking colleagues in design institutions to recommend or teach a useful ( and usable ) subset of document design to occupy just a few hours is not likely to elicit an encouraging response . |