Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few [adj] hours " in BNC.
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1 | We men , we know not what loftiness we might reach if only for a few small hours we could by carefulness of life , morally and physically so exact ourselves that scarce any utmost purity of air were too perfect for us . |
2 | Hence Sharon and partner Martin can only get to be with their pedigree chum for a few precious hours on Sunday mornings at kennels in Wickford . |
3 | For a few precious hours she had savoured the sensation , and had determinedly closed her mind to the thought that only the most hard-hearted man would not have offered comfort in her present condition . |
4 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
5 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |