Example sentences of "[prep] a few hours [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inflation , which had officially fallen to 9.4 per cent in September 1989 and to around 7 per cent in October , rose sharply in November , while the austral lost one-tenth of its value on the black market , dropping to $1.00=1,000 australs in the course of a few hours on Nov. 20 against a background of uncertainty over economic policies , tension within the government and divisions in the labour movement . |
| 2 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 3 | The portrait was painted in a few hours without Modigliani stopping for a single minute . ’ |
| 4 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 5 | In August , 1952 , more than nine inches fell in a few hours at Lynmouth , Devon . |
| 6 | Our morning walk along the cliffs gave us terrific views of the secluded white sand bays dotted along the coastline followed by a few hours on Pompièrre beach where the locals meet to picnic . |