Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] a few hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the business of the day and the more important business of the evening meal , the inhabitants of Roziac were enjoying a few hours of leisure in the open air . |
| 2 | ‘ But when the young folk of the dale were given a few hours off we certainly made the most of it . |
| 3 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
| 4 | He was ambushed a few hours later and shot dead . |
| 5 | Muriel Brunton , 70 , was found a few hours after ‘ a ferocious attack ’ lying dead in the hall of her home in Haigh Road , Aspull , Wigan . |
| 6 | Her husband was arrested a few hours later . |
| 7 | He was released a few hours later . |