Example sentences of "a [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
| 3 | Within a few hours a scum appears on top of the wort and this rapidly builds up into a great yellowy-brown crust as the yeast turns the sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since a firm intact skin is essential , both to exclude infections and prevent the contents from drying out , it is usual to leave roots on the soil surface for a few hours to harden their skins . |
| 6 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 7 | She and Lucy would have a drink after work on Fridays , sometimes an early supper , a few hours to unwind : a pattern pleasing to both . |
| 8 | Leave the instrument in a greenhouse containing well-watered plants on a sunny day for a few hours to get an idea of maximum deflection . |
| 9 | They may also know of people seeking work for a few hours or days per week , perhaps to help out with the garden , or heavier household tasks , or shopping . |
| 10 | Ambulance to Raigmore Hospital , Inverness and a few hours later I was talking to the consultant . |
| 11 | After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns . |
| 12 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 15 | The German had intended to ride his Olympic gold medal partner , Walzerkoenig , on Saturday night until a few hours earlier when it was discovered that the horse 's off-foreleg was inexplicably swollen . |
| 16 | Page 29 Sterling slumps : The pound posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost six pfennigs in a few hours to close at DM2.9737 . |
| 17 | THE POUND yesterday posted its steepest one-day fall in more than three years , sinking almost 6 pfennigs within a few hours . |
| 18 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 19 | Moreover , they interpret a piece of music and make it their own , even if they have never encountered the given orchestra until a few hours before . |
| 20 | To help engender trust and familiarity , the field-worker 's contact in the station was restricted at the beginning to a few hours a shift once a week , gradually being built up to a full shift , including mights , twice a week . |
| 21 | After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | After a good meal , served by the Royal Navy , then a few hours ' sleep , I joined the others on deck as the South Coast of England came into view through the clearing mist . |
| 25 | If you 'll teach me I 'll come and work for you a few hours a week . ’ |
| 26 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll go out to the fields for a few hours to try to work off some of this . ’ |
| 29 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 30 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |