Example sentences of "every few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon the airway will stay open of its own accord , but until the tube can be removed mucus must be sucked out every few hours . |
| 2 | ‘ Move them all about , every few hours , just to give them a change ? ’ |
| 3 | I referred his valet to Miss Kenton , but this did not prevent M. Dupont snapping his fingers at me every few hours to say : ‘ Butler ! |
| 4 | I was to be incarcerated for another two days and nights on a diet of three assorted pills and a curious fizzy powder in a paper wrapper , presented every few hours with instructions in mime . |
| 5 | A tickling cough coming every few hours with increasing intensity . |
| 6 | And every few hours I 'd get more shots . |
| 7 | ‘ Once he knew where we were Lewis telegraphed every few hours . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There must , he thought , be thousands of these small attendants , waiters , scullions , masons , miners , mechanics and general helpers and dogsbodies in the place and around it ; he knew something about provisioning and logistics , and the castle 's kitchens could have provided ten-course meals every few hours for an army of tens of thousands . |
| 10 | There they have been exploiting the advantages of low pollution , the ability to stop and restart every few hours — sorry , every few yards — and electric cars may be introduced as much for their ability to produce low pollution , low noise , and as petrol becomes more expensive and electric cars become more widespread and better engineered and more efficient and cheaper , and more socially acceptable , then I think we will see electric cars . |