Example sentences of "[prep] a few hours the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 After a few hours the speed of change slowed .
2 This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead .
3 For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds .
4 The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began !
5 But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate .
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