Example sentences of "[adv] [art] few hours [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The daily body rhythms are timed similarly in different individuals , and in the same individual on different days , with regular differences of only a few hours between the timing of , say , the body temperature rhythm in ‘ larks ’ and ‘ owls ’ , for example . |
| 2 | Zurich is a city of squares , in many of which time seems to have edged forward by only a few hours since the Middle Ages . |
| 3 | The DCS200 uses rechargeables , which will last only a few hours per charge . |
| 4 | With me it has done well not only in a sheltered , sunny position ( the best conditions ) but also in a place where it has only a few hours of direct sunshine each day . |
| 5 | Within only a few hours of the big bang , the production of helium and other elements would have stopped . |
| 6 | She died with her husband on the next day , only a few hours after writing her letter . |
| 7 | On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt . |
| 8 | A post-mortem on Allan McKay showed that he probably died only a few hours after leaving home . |
| 9 | The attack came only a few hours after the Thai Interior Minister , Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi , had issued a " last warning " to the Myanman military to withdraw all its troops from the Thai side of the border . |
| 10 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
| 11 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 12 | Only a few hours by train . ’ |
| 13 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |
| 14 | Indeed , MTB 74 , with her torpedo tubes on the foredeck instead of amidships , was ready for sea only a few hours before the raid , her crew having changed one of her five engines . |
| 15 | So why not spare just a few hours for Amnesty International ? |
| 16 | While our friends have made their new houses look good in just a few hours with a lick of paint , we 've had to put up new ceilings , repair skirting boards and hack off layers of old tiles . |
| 17 | You will find it much easier if you can bring yourself to take the very positive attitude that today the two of you are going to share just a few hours of life together : time that can never come again . |
| 18 | Nigel Gooch was hit with a fire extinguisher during the attack while he was on duty , just a few hours into 1992 . |
| 19 | just , just a few hours like that |
| 20 | The figures are published on a day when arsonists destroyed part of a shopping centre just a few hours after thieves stealing television sets had also tried to start a fire . |
| 21 | Her mother Fran said : ‘ I can not believe we are just a few hours from going home . |
| 22 | I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’ |
| 23 | Just a few hours before the verdict he told Central News that he believed the jury would find him not guilty . |
| 24 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
| 25 | I think I obscurely felt relief that I would continue to live alone , to have at least a few hours of the day and night when I could try to regain one of my mixed-up selves . |
| 26 | Rub the meat with salt ( about a couple of tablespoonsful ) and let it stand overnight or at least a few hours before cutting it into 1 ½-inch thick strips along the grooves left by the bones . |