Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few hours [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The law demanded that they attend school for the few hours they were not in the theatre , but time spent on education was minimal as the pantomime was so popular that there were matinées most days . |
| 2 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
| 3 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 4 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 5 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
| 6 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
| 7 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
| 8 | Within a few hours he cancelled on the grounds that the subject was ‘ too sensitive ’ — some twelve years after the amalgamation of his library had taken place . |
| 9 | Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it . |
| 10 | Within a few hours she was transferred to the neurosurgical unit at Addenbrookes hospital , Cambridge . |
| 11 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 12 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 13 | I forgot my circumstances talking to her , that I no longer had power to help , that in a few hours I 'd be gone , and I said , ‘ Of course I 'd love to visit you , I 'd be honoured . |
| 14 | In a few hours I would be flown into a different culture , a different climate , with different people . |
| 15 | The feeling of foreboding builds as soon as she wakes and remembers that in a few hours she will be jetting off to yet another exotic location . |
| 16 | In a few hours she would come face to face once more with that same man who was responsible for his death and this time she was intent on making absolutely sure that what had been a teenage crush on her part remained just that . |
| 17 | As she looked down at this small collection of his personal belongings , she realized that she had never thought of him as having any reality beyond the few hours they had spent together at the cottage . |