Example sentences of "[prep] a [det] hours [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Within a few hours they had 50 signatures . |
4 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
5 | Within a few hours I noticed a large number of fry appearing at the water surface . |
6 | Within a few hours he cancelled on the grounds that the subject was ‘ too sensitive ’ — some twelve years after the amalgamation of his library had taken place . |
7 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |