Example sentences of "[prep] [art] first [det] hour " in BNC.

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1 John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness .
2 I found it very difficult for the first few hours , but after watching the robots and using my skill at cheating I was able to watch somebody else to find out how to complete each screen , of which there are lots .
3 He 'll be , he 'll be quiet for the first few hours , he wo n't sort , say anything , then he
4 As the speed is increased , the damping becomes less and you will be able to decide on a reasonable limit to keep to for the first half hour .
5 Would it be worth actually having a , having a sort of a planning meeting , say you know for the first half hour of one of these meetings , the next one say that we have , you know , a wall planner , you know , a chart and
6 She come downstairs well not for the first half hour .
7 for the first half hour I sat did n't dare put my
8 Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques .
9 But by all means take a flask of tea or coffee to drink during the first few hours , but flasked drinks always taste stale after ten or twelve hours .
10 Taken together , these results suggest that proteins synthesized from pre-existing mRNA are required for the maintenance of LTP during the first few hours ( corresponding to LTP2 in the classification shown in Box 1 ) .
11 Fear had been at its pitch during the first few hours and days .
12 During its 1947 eruption , the Icelandic volcano Hekla ejected ash at a rate estimated to be nearly 100,000 cubic metres per second during the first half hour , slowing down subsequently to a more modest 30,000 cubic metres per second .
13 Lucy slept after the first few hours , and woke with a start from a nightmare where she was being chased and her feet were weighed down with heavy , heavy shoes .
14 It 's become common practice for babies to be placed on their mother 's stomach immediately after birth but many hospitals still have a policy of removing the baby within the first half hour for measuring and weighing .
15 Patients seen in the first half hour after the onset of symptoms are experiencing most severe pain .
16 Table 7.1 thus also supports the contention made in the first half hour of this chapter that short-term contract workers in the service sector are mainly " voluntary " temporary workers .
17 Omagh Town ran in three goals in the first half hour , and out-of-favour striker Cook could n't believe what he was watching .
18 They must have crossed 1,000 balls in the first half hour .
19 John Bond 's side never got a look in as Quakers took command in the first half hour .
20 New manager Ray Hankin disposed of the rusty 5–3–2 formation and pushed his assistant Mick Tait into a hard working midfield which created several openings in the first half hour .
21 meanwhile , slipped up again at Croft Park , this time losing 2–0 Colin Mcleod and Paul Staff were on target in the first half hour .
22 Three wickets fell , though , in the first half hour after lunch to leave them wobbling at 61 for four .
23 In the first few hours following fertilisation , the embryo is not particularly tolerant of high temperatures but , by the next day , its tolerance appears somehow to have increased .
24 In the first few hours after the verdict , 60 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct .
25 Our inability to standardise the timing of the initial packed cell volume is unfortunate as large changes in plasma volume occur in the first few hours of life .
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