Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] a few hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , I noted them in my diary only a few hours afterwards . ’ |
| 2 | You 've been glad enough to have a doctor coming to see you every day — you , John , with your head broken … or you , George , sick and shaking with fever only a few hours ago . |
| 3 | I love camping and do n't feel that anything can compare with waking up in the morning with the day just a few hours on from dawn , dew still on the grass , so that when you open the tent flap the smell of a new day comes to you with the early morning sun . |
| 4 | The figures are published on a day when arsonists destroyed part of a shopping centre just a few hours after thieves stealing television sets had also tried to start a fire . |
| 5 | Indeed , MTB 74 , with her torpedo tubes on the foredeck instead of amidships , was ready for sea only a few hours before the raid , her crew having changed one of her five engines . |
| 6 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 7 | FOUR of the five gunmen who had been occupying the Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose , Costa Rica , for nearly two weeks left the country yesterday a few hours after the siege had ended peacefully . |