Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] a few hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 2 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |
| 3 | The deadline for the surrender of the Securitate secret police was only a few hours ago . |
| 4 | It was important to remember that it was only a few hours since Floy and Snodgrass had left Tara , the Shining Citadel , the Bright Palace , and that there was not very much that could have gone wrong for them in those few hours . |
| 5 | But the meeting was only a few hours old when the news broke that Winnie Mandela would face serious charges arising out of the murder in January 1989 of 14 year old activist , Stompie Moeketsi Seipei . |