Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] a few hours " in BNC.

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1 You can work full-time , part-time or for a few hours in the evenings .
2 During these weeks Seb rarely saw Carrie , except for a few hours each Sunday when they worked on the farm ledgers together at the Hankses ' cottage , and even here they were rarely alone .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Sylvia comes from nine to five each weekday , and nurses are on duty between six and 10 every evening and for a few hours at the weekend .
6 This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead .
7 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 .
8 He had given her a sob-story and for a few hours — a few fatal hours — she had mistaken compassion for love .
9 It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard .
10 staining first appears in r3 ( a ) and after a few hours is joined by staining in r5 ( b ) .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me .
14 And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him .
15 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 .
16 But for a few hours today there was hope .
17 But after a few hours it became hard to disguise .
18 But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate .
19 But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face .
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