Example sentences of "[verb] a [det] hours ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they take their work home with them , maybe they 'll do a few hours ' work off the mains . |
| 2 | By the time we reached the Ava Bridge it had stopped raining and having got across , we just lay on the ground and got a few hours ' sleep . |
| 3 | Unless there is exceptional need they only work from Monday to Friday , and as the service is very short-staffed in many areas most people can only receive a few hours ' help a week ; although in special cases daily help can be arranged . |
| 4 | Nicola 's parents stayed at her bedside until 2.30am before snatching a few hours ' sleep in a room at the hospital . |
| 5 | The fact that Mangon fully deserved his title of Wizard of Lighting was of minor importance to the Girls who , due to his perfectionism , often only had a few hours ' sleep in their dressing-rooms , and occasionally none at all . |
| 6 | So we saw almost nothing of Hong Kong , except the inside of the luxurious Hong Kong Hotel , where we had a few hours ' sleep before going to the railway station in the morning . |
| 7 | There had been a delay in building it , so that I had only managed a few hours ' practice in the streets of Salford . |