Example sentences of "[adv] for a [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'll be all right for a few hours . |
| 2 | Despite this demonstration of his habitual need for normal sleep , even if only for a few hours a night , this same individual appeared on television a few years later , again claiming never to sleep . |
| 3 | Opportunities to relax and let her guard down , even if only for a few hours , had been rare . |
| 4 | We knew it was not true to life but it was a good way to escape our humdrum lives if only for a few hours . |
| 5 | Sometimes Sheila got away from her family to come with her and she drove down for a few hours as well as now and again in the middle of the week . |
| 6 | Volunteers usually act as ‘ sitters ’ caring for a client while the rest of the family is away , perhaps for a few hours for a weekly shopping trip . |
| 7 | We sailed into a murky , airless dawn veiled by the thin drizzle of a Scotch Mist , and I turned in for a few hours . |
| 8 | Contentedly I went below and turned in for a few hours , leaving my colleague to navigate . |
| 9 | Already their affair was like marriage , with its own dispiriting routine , this shabby coming together for a few hours in the shabby office . |
| 10 | The jeep driver was pleased at the opportunity to get away for a few hours and we set off about 3 p.m. , arriving in the area of the Highland Division a short time later , after following their divisional signs along the country lanes . |
| 11 | Fifteen miles north , they put into St Abbs haven , under the mighty headland of that name , just before dawn , and went ashore for a few hours ' rest in a hay barn . |
| 12 | She had travelled overnight all the way from Scotland , just for a few hours one Saturday . |
| 13 | Today she 's come to a pre admissions clinic just for a few hours . |
| 14 | Often the Phantasms — daemon-masked , each dabbed with different costly scents , and gowned in luminous silk appliquéd with lascivious emblems — would bomb around the broad upper avenues on their jet-trikes , and through almost deserted midnight malls , seeking stylised mayhem with another brat gang or hunting for an odour bar or an elegant brothel which they could take over for a few hours before fleeing just ahead of a Judge patrol . |
| 15 | Finishing the script , I would leave it for the typist and go home for a few hours ' nap until rehearsal time at two o'clock . |
| 16 | Go home for a few hours . |
| 17 | His meeting was not until the next morning , so he could switch off for a few hours . |
| 18 | I collect a dozen or so from the dewy grass in the early morning and set off for a few hours ' chubbing , knowing I am going to catch several fish , providing , of course , the weather and water conditions are favourable . |
| 19 | ‘ Fancy skiving off for a few hours ? |
| 20 | He called a sudden halt to his crowded agenda at lunchtime and crashed out for a few hours in the adjacent chamber , throwing the timetable into disarray . |
| 21 | He was wondering how he was going to slip out for a few hours without alerting his mother . |
| 22 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 23 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 24 | I kept wandering around for a few hours , with no idea where I was or where I was going , then somewhere along the line I chanced upon an open space where there was the odd bench scattered here and there and I used one of these for my lie-down . |
| 25 | If you do manage it then this brilliant collection of new maps will give you something to do tonight , at least for a few hours ! |
| 26 | If you do manage it then this brilliant collection of new maps will give you something to do tonight , at least for a few hours ! |
| 27 | ‘ Just as you 're going to have to endure being separated from Jeff every day — at least for a few hours , while we do our English lessons . ’ |
| 28 | I 'll be there for a few hours . ’ |
| 29 | It seemed , as her mother would have said , ‘ a crime ’ to waste a beautiful afternoon in a stuffy cinema , but she might be able to shed her troubles there for a few hours . |
| 30 | ‘ I had to get away from there for a few hours . |