Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [art] [adj] hours " in BNC.

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1 He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport .
2 Then he makes a lightning trip back on Concorde for Petit Loup in the Arc a few hours later .
3 Rincewind stood up as slowly as he dared , and drew from his belt the short sword he had taken from the guard a few hours and a hundred years ago .
4 At the end of 2 hours , turn it into a clean cloth , and repeat the process every 2 hours throughout the day , when the cheese will be ready for use .
5 She thought of the moment a few hours earlier , before they had left for dinner , when he had taken her in his arms .
6 They reached the lake a few hours later .
7 I had to go to the hospital every four hours for my eye drops and asthma inhaler , and even though I did n't need them that often , I was still expected to go .
8 ‘ Especially when I was shutting myself away until two or three in the morning , so that I was absolutely certain that I was going to be able to go into the studio a few hours later and deliver something that was believable and complete . ’
9 Eating sand rice and stone peas , drinking small quantities of an unknown sticky orange substance , stopping off for re-fuelling at most airports in the world , taking crazed detours to Nowhereland through Afghanistan , Pakistan , India , Iran , Saudi Arabia , what seemed like Iceland and what definitely was Cuba , herded off the plane every few hours to sit in concrete bunkers while men with machine guns handed out the sticky orange , with the true feeling gnawing into your dead-from-the-nerves-down brain that you would n't make Bangkok until the New Year , if at all .
10 Sometimes it 's worth going away for a while and letting her think she 's beaten you , and then coming back with the food a few hours later .
11 If possible , introduce the female a few hours before the male , so she can explore and settle in in peace and quiet .
12 With more than 12500 restaurants in 60 countries , a new Mcdonald 's restaurant is opened in some part of the world every 14.5 hours .
13 A complete rotation of the map every twenty-four hours simulated the daily rotation of the heavens .
14 Wavebreaker settled on her new course and , by the time the small hours were growing , we had left the island 's lights well behind and I was cutting her prow hard into real ocean waves .
15 And they have a break every three hours .
16 Dosage : For general conditions , take a wineglassful three times a day every four hours .
17 These were that interrogation rooms in police holding centres should be monitored by silent , closed-circuit television and that a prisoner should be given the right to be visited by a solicitor every forty-eight hours until either released or charged .
18 The proposal for monitoring by silent , closed-circuit television cameras , he said , would be implemented as recommended , but the one to allow a prisoner the right to consult a solicitor every forty-eight hours would be curtailed to the extent that ‘ where it is thought necessary ’ a senior police officer would be present .
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