Example sentences of "[prep] a few hours of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few hours of embroidery I was free ; free to cycle wherever I liked with my friends . |
| 2 | This will probably involve a social worker in an area team putting together a package that might consist of a few hours of home care , a couple of days of day care , and night sitting for one night . |
| 3 | But always , for that one first moment , there was a hope , a promise of a few hours of enchantment . |
| 4 | Few have gone through aerobatic training , and the modern tendency is to be happy with a few hours of stall avoidance training and little , if any , spinning . |
| 5 | Also in the house were two children , no doubt lucky to be alive , as Mrs Dyer usually despatched her charges within a few hours of receiving them . |
| 6 | Within a few hours of becoming queen Anne wrote to the Dutch States-General setting out the basis of her policy . |
| 7 | Its tail will shrink within a few hours of departure . |
| 8 | The first organisms , which appear within a few hours of the pool forming , are bacteria , as well as tiny single celled plants and animals called algae and protozoa respectively . |
| 9 | In b and c , the local times of each point were within a few hours of local noon and so the ClO values may be taken as qualitatively representative of the day maximum , which in run 4 reached 1.1p.p.b.v. at this level . |
| 10 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
| 11 | The process of counting is a proficient one and a sufficient number of results are usually announced within a few hours of the close of the polls to know which party has won the election . |
| 12 | The man threatened a cashier with a handgun in the raids which happened within a few hours of each other . |
| 13 | And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 14 | WITHIN a few hours of arriving in Cape Town yesterday morning , the Scotland squad had a training and nets session at a local boys ' school where the facilities were superb . |
| 15 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |