Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] [art] [adj] hours " 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 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |