Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] hours [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had greased himself in oil and he had cooked and broiled and yearned for the magic hours of noon and six when he could down a life-saving tumbler of gin and lime . |
| 2 | There were times during the long hours of dark when he did drop into an uneasy doze , but never for more than a few minutes together . |
| 3 | Music , for both of us , is a part of life we treasure , and Michael has found his records and tapes a constant source of happiness during the long hours of inactivity forced upon him . |
| 4 | And in Gascoigne 's absence he played the fool to lighten the mood during the long hours of inactivity that footballers must put up with . |
| 5 | During closure , they found , the outer surface of the leaf expands ; but during the 10 hours of reopening , the inner surface slowly expands . |
| 6 | There is little traffic on them during the dark hours at present , but if the lines are to be used by freight trains — some of them a mile long trundling through the night and causing heavy vibration and noise , there will be a dramatic effect on the environment and quality of life of those who live in proximity to them . |
| 7 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 8 | We prescribed a clear liquid diet for all children during the 48 hours before study . |
| 9 | Only 10 out of the 24 hours of Sunrise 's daily programmes will be local . |
| 10 | Please find attached details of the proposed hours of Reception staff to be undertaken on a trial basis from 6 September to 4 December 1993 . |
| 11 | With the considerable hours per week demanded by the farm any training courses must be good , relevant , and organised well in advance . |
| 12 | Apart from the sacrosanct hours from midday until two , the main street is quietly busy , with queues at the two boulangeries for each fresh batch of baguettes , petanque players under the plane trees , and , on Sundays , a tiny but comprehensive market . |
| 13 | Of the 24 variables studied and included in a multivariate analysis using a logistic regression model , three had an independent prognostic value : encephalopathy , prothrombin time , and the number of blood units transfused within the 72 hours of time zero . |
| 14 | We have calculated the p value for each patient ( 28 ) admitted in the next period of the study using the grade of encephalopathy , the absolute value of prothrombin time at the admission and the number of blood units transfused within the 72 hours after admission . |
| 15 | Our work emphasises the prognostic value of three variables : encephalopathy , prothrombin time , and the number of blood units transfused within the 72 hours after time zero . |
| 16 | The People 's Party reacted by rejecting the allegations , and accused Ruml of violating the election law ban on campaigning within the 48 hours before polling began . |
| 17 | There is a copy here if Members want to browse through it in the small hours of morning . |
| 18 | In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges . |
| 19 | In the dark hours after breakfast it was some way of controlling the monstrous disjuncture between his private and his public life . |
| 20 | Sometimes in the early hours of morning I 'd wake to hear her crying . |
| 21 | Over the top , I hear you say , and so it is — splendidly over the top and a moment that will remind you , adrift in the endless hours of pseudo-realism , that the screen does after all have transformative powers . |
| 22 | In the frozen hours of dawn it all appeared rather benign , but on our return , some five weeks later , we were forced to run a sobering gauntlet . |
| 23 | If they were not lying securely in their graves , awaiting the Day of Judgement , what might they not be up to in the long hours of darkness , as the boards creaked and the wind howled on Wuthering Heights ? |
| 24 | Well the answer lies in the twelve hours of negotiation that took place yesterday . |
| 25 | Once in the uneasy hours of dark , I heard my father singing to himself . |
| 26 | And in the last hours of night , Hell 's streets teemed with the addicts , the muggers . |
| 27 | It will reveal the limitations to the interpretation a player can give , say , Bartok 's ‘ Mikrokosmos ’ without the long hours of practice and thought which are currently necessary for the mastery of both the piano and the music itself . |
| 28 | He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work . |