Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [adj] few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | But common sense , coupled with the prospect of the time and paperwork involved in interviewing the hundred or so people who 'd been through the Cookery and Refreshment Tent during the past few hours finally defeated his hope for personal glory through brilliant deduction . |
| 2 | ‘ Look , Cand , are you going to tell me what the heck you 're talking about , or do I have to play riddle-me-ree for the next few hours ? ’ |
| 3 | Minutes later , feeling suddenly totally exhausted by all the nervous tension of the past few hours , Shiona kissed the already sleeping Kirsty goodnight , then climbed into her own bunk and closed her eyes . |
| 4 | Superintendent if any other information had come to light over the next few hours would you have reconsidered the matter ? |
| 5 | Taken together , these results suggest that proteins synthesized from pre-existing mRNA are required for the maintenance of LTP during the first few hours ( corresponding to LTP2 in the classification shown in Box 1 ) . |
| 6 | I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours . |
| 7 | ‘ We can no more see to the bottom of the next few hours , than we can see to the bottom of this river what I catches hold of . |
| 8 | Tersely , he recalled his experiences of the past few hours . |
| 9 | Her emotions seemed to have undergone a deep sea-change over the last few hours . |
| 10 | Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques . |
| 11 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 12 | She sat demurely on the edge of one of the room 's more nondescript-looking chairs , knowing that this Josie , whoever she might be , would be her key to success or failure over the next few hours and maybe even the coming days . |
| 13 | When a sergeant congratulated one section on the improvement in the language in the guard room over the last few hours when the field-worker had been present , one constable shouted , ‘ Fucking good job too , Sir ’ ( FN 2/2/87 , p. 6 ) , and the occupational culture of the station soon reasserted its typical forms of expression , which are widespread in all police forces and occupational cultures that are predominantly masculine and working class . |
| 14 | Even the stress of the past few hours had not removed the memories of his betrayal . |
| 15 | He had become certain by watching the preparations in the sepoy camp that they would make a major assault within the next few hours . |
| 16 | The four of us drifted in and out of sleep for a further few hours , then , miraculously , at about 4 pm , the fog lifted and the rain ceased . |
| 17 | Maybe it was the hypnotic , rhythmic drone of the aircraft engines , or the sheer emotional exhaustion of the past few hours , but there seemed little she could do to suppress the memories she had so resolutely buried during the last five years . |
| 18 | Where had the ice-cold man of the last few hours gone ? |
| 19 | Finally , worn out by her own thoughts and the strain of the last few hours , she drew up at a small country hotel and took a room there for the night . |
| 20 | In general if an illness has appeared rapidly and vigorously over a matter of hours then one should look for a cause in the preceding few hours or day at the most . |
| 21 | 7 of the group are expected to be discharged from hospital within the next few hours . |
| 22 | And a cobweb across an entrance hole tells you that nobody has passed that way for the past few hours , but little more . |
| 23 | She hoped that Anna would keep off the subject of Luke for the next few hours . |
| 24 | Fear had been at its pitch during the first few hours and days . |
| 25 | Somewhere inside himself he felt disgust at the events of the previous few hours . |
| 26 | Suddenly the events of the last few hours gripped him in a violent despairing spasm . |