Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 4 ) Nothing in this Act shall be taken to require any premises to be open for the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor during the permitted hours . |
| 2 | He was unlikely to have her arrested again , and an unwanted pass might seem like fair payment for a few hours spent out of the confines of her depressing little room . |
| 3 | How much Mr Pringle receives ( tax free ) will doubtless depend on the Tories ' progress through the early hours . |
| 4 | It will stop the Yssgaroth for a few hours … . ’ |
| 5 | CASH , and a Sanyo music centre , were stolen in a burglary during the early hours of Sunday morning at Birch Close , Bordon . |
| 6 | She had promised to take me sailing , and Paula had let her borrow the boat for a few hours , as she had often done before . |
| 7 | In rats receiving sc caerulein , the blood flow was significantly ( p<0.05 ) reduced by about 43% after two hours of caerulein infusion and then showed only small further decrease during the remaining hours of the experiment . |
| 8 | One must pay tribute to her dedication , and the gratitude of all connected with the Club , past , present and future is her due for the patient hours she has obviously spent in researching club records , the Henley Standard and personal reminiscences of many people who have been associated with the Club 's story . |
| 9 | She troubles a good deal about the three hours that she 's lost . |
| 10 | To the sleeping rhythm of a hundred hours , |
| 11 | The onset of the cooler hours is announced by the first thuds of tennis balls . |
| 12 | Some were parents enjoying the luxury of a few hours away from their children , who were fully occupied with games and competitions at the miniclub . |
| 13 | And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice . |
| 14 | You can catch a show , a concert , a first-run film or club into the small hours . |
| 15 | It was here , on his way back from a night club in the early hours of the morning , that he was attacked by a man with a broken bottle . |
| 16 | The youths collapsed inside the club in the early hours of Saturday . |
| 17 | You can choose between a vast selection of bars , all with English or English speaking staff , and take your pick out of the 6 or 7 nightclubs that raise the roof until the small hours . |
| 18 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 19 | The next time you hear a noisy 747 thundering over your roof in the early hours of the morning — you can smile and sleep well in the knowledge that the airline have just been fined one third of a landing fee , approximately £1,300 ! |
| 20 | The man , of no fixed address , was found collapsed in his cell in the early hours of yesterday . |
| 21 | At the height of the violence in the early hours of the morning at Wymott jail in Leyland , Lancashire , about 400 rioters had seized control and were smashing up the jail . |
| 22 | However , Gibson had no experience on the Mossie and would have benefited a great deal from a few hours with the PFF Mossie Unit at Warboys — perhaps a couple of low-level bombing attacks on our bombing range . |
| 23 | Vandals smashed the glass front door of Jaze hairdressers in Yarm Road , Darlington , with a rock in the early hours of yesterday . |
| 24 | Rapid onset over a few hours |
| 25 | Rapid onset over a few hours . |
| 26 | And at the end , after twelve cancelled variants in one short paragraph , a single sentence , itself the third attempt , tells us ‘ They would not let the orchestra go , and musicians who attempted to leave were beaten up ’ , which says all we need to know about the unstated ‘ Keep playing ! ’ whereby the liveliness of the small hours will have been sustained . |
| 27 | She longed to wake him so that they could make love again but did not dare to because , for all the intimacy of the previous hours , Constance knew that she was lying next to a virtual stranger . |
| 28 | It is not until the death of Lowe , on September 30th 1467 , that we come to our next account in which a full description of the last hours of this Bishop are given . |
| 29 | Often in the past he had tried to keep her in bed in the morning , but always she had pushed off his sleep-drugged advances with a brusque reminder that she had work to do , stubbornly shutting her mind to the tenderness of a few hours before . |
| 30 | It is possible that the entire text is a combination of description and recollection from the perspective of a single flight , in which case it takes place over the course of a few hours , the time it takes to read it . |