Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] a few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 2 | Baby sea-lions have been born at Belfast before but have always been born dead or have only survived a few hours . |
| 3 | She 'd tacked a few scraps of old cotton into a baby-gown too and sent it round next door for the new Rattrie baby , born very inconveniently , as it turned out , the day after the funeral , her fit of generosity entirely misplaced , since the child had only lived a few hours and the gown — upon which Odette had worked a few hasty stitches of embroidery — had ended up in the pawnshop — Cara had seen it herself in the window — to help pay , she supposed , for yet another infantile disposal . |
| 4 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |
| 5 | This impression was tragically confirmed a few hours later when news came through that HMS Sheffield had been sunk . |