Example sentences of "[verb] only a 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 | The assault came only a few hours after Gorbachev had reassured a Federation Council meeting in Moscow that force would not be used . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A post-mortem on Allan McKay showed that he probably died only a few hours after leaving home . |
| 7 | The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Many have only a few hours to spare , but they enjoy helping in this way . |
| 11 | When you find you have only a few hours to spare you can choose the best swim for that particular period . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |