Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] hours of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 22 hours of distressing , agonising labour , I was told I was going to need a Caesarean section . |
| 2 | The letter quoted above was begun at Didcot Station , then continued at his Cowley Road digs , and rounded off at the end of the first day of the Scholarship exam after six hours of hard writing . |
| 3 | It is bizarre that we should happen on the ultimate non-stop gamblers bar brawl after such hours of seamless desert desolation . |
| 4 | What a transformation , suddenly the guard spoke English , we received the required stamps and were sent on our way after three hours of total frustration . |
| 5 | The National Assembly , reportedly after three hours of heated debate , on Dec. 27 passed the Constitution Amendment No 4 Bill 1991 legalizing the November decision to postpone the general election beyond the constitutional deadline of Dec. 28 [ see p. 38571 ] . |
| 6 | After three hours of continuous nibbling it seemed , I will confess , rather on the acid and insubstantial side , and I began to yearn for a bowl of pasta . |
| 7 | He turned to Billy whose long empty stomach had ceased to heave an hour before and who now looked almost human after three hours of hard work . |
| 8 | The compromise list was put together after long hours of high drama when Mr Pozsgay , a minister of state and the leading reformer , and two of his close allies threatened to walk out . |
| 9 | I awoke in the morning completely refreshed after ten hours of uninterrupted sleep . |
| 10 | Blue in the face and entangled by his own cord , a baby boy emerged after nine hours of agonizing labour , during which Ann was assisted by Aunt Bridget . |
| 11 | The man , 27 , who carried two hand grenades and had threatened to kill himself and all 80 passengers and crew unless he , his wife and baby son reached New York , surrendered to police in Stockholm on Saturday evening after five hours of tense runway negotiations . |
| 12 | Jonsson , DFM Finally retired after 36,000 hours of military and civil flying , Flt Lt Jonsson from Iceland attended the Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary reception after representing the Luxembourg Branch on the Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary Parade . |
| 13 | After several hours of futile combat , in which the Norman minstrel Taillefer perished in a glorious suicide ride and the knights were unable to smash the fyrd 's defensive rings , the battle turned , the Saxon ranks broke line under their own enthusiasm rather than the Norman ruse always reported , and Harold was eventually mortally wounded by the repeated rain of arrows which , lacking sufficient archers , the English were unable to return . |
| 14 | This afternoon , the trial was halted when the Judge , Mr. Justice Auld , called in the jury after several hours of legal argument and told them , ’ I apologise for the long delay . |
| 15 | Now , after several hours of teasing pursuit , he had lost it in these hell-lit tunnels . |
| 16 | After several hours of random identity checks , the troops dispersed . |
| 17 | After four hours of diligent searching , he found a small parcel which looked rather like a discarded packet of sandwiches . |
| 18 | They also suggested that the solution might be administered orally after 24 hours of intravenous treatment . |
| 19 | My baby was not born until the following evening , after 24 hours of intense suffering which an ignorant attendant did little to alleviate , assuring me at intervals that I should be much worse yet . |
| 20 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 21 | In a classic study of product development , Booz-Allen and Hamilton reported that only two out of ten new products were a commercial success and that seven out of eight hours of technical effort failed to result in commercial success ( Jain 1984 ) . |
| 22 | But that wo n't matter if you strike lucky in our latest competition to give away three sets of all four films a total of 10 hours of top-class viewing . |
| 23 | Much of the information system would unfortunately be taken up with information about the assortment of opening hours of individual bureaux . |
| 24 | She now speaks of those hours of heady emotion in a voice of wry amusement : ‘ I had tremendous hopes in my heart . ’ |
| 25 | GPs should be encouraged to participate in research by relaxing the regulations of compulsory hours of patient service and by creating a practice development allowance |
| 26 | ‘ We were woken at 10.30pm and told to put our kit on for three hours of night-time navigation exercises , ’ says Peter . |
| 27 | A blindfold was put on , she said , and remained in place throughout 36 hours of pure terror . |
| 28 | ‘ They will be supported , as will the Sunday matches , with 11 hours of magazine-type football programmes , which will be hugely important in terms of widening the audience for football . ’ |
| 29 | Once a large amount of data has been collected , the question arises of how it should be analysed , and it is understandable if investigators faced with many hours of tape-recorded conversation feel a little daunted . |
| 30 | I find found that absolutely incredible and I thought it was bizarre to say the least , the procedure we had to go through the other er evening erm with two hours of acrimonious debate er a break while you consulted er the officers before we got to some er sensible way forward which is now incorporated in this amendment er to spend a hundred thousand pounds on actually trying to trace . |