Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] [art] [adj] hour " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army .
3 That night Lenin travelled incognito to Soviet and party headquarters and in the early hours of 25 October strategic points in the city were seized .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India .
7 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 .
8 This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead .
9 He had given her a sob-story and for a few hours — a few fatal hours — she had mistaken compassion for love .
10 In the first edition of a new series of the monthly journal , The Seaman , the union claimed that over 150,000 seamen of all nationalities had , during the previous twelve months , voted unanimously for international action " on the same day and at the same hour , until their unions receive proper recognition , establish the right of collective bargaining and uniform rates of wages and conditions of labour on all ships " .
11 Shortly after dawn a party of Germans entered a railway carriage at Compiègne and by the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month , the Armistice was signed and the war was over .
12 Margaret McGregor , who chairs the licensing board at Edinburgh District Council , said the board was responding to police reports that the incidence of violent crime was greater at the weekends and in the early hours .
13 As a first step she must go to Paris to meet the Ministers and in the early hours of the morning she left by carriage for the Tuileries , where , on arrival , she immediately sent messages convoking a Council of Ministers .
14 That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice .
15 He had n't expected this precipitate visit and in the last hour he had bawled out everyone in sight .
16 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 .
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