Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] a few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | You can work full-time , part-time or for a few hours in the evenings . |
| 2 | Sylvia comes from nine to five each weekday , and nurses are on duty between six and 10 every evening and for a few hours at the weekend . |
| 3 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 4 | A petite , pleasant-faced doxy , however , caught my eye and for a few hours I became old Shallot again , whiling away the time , telling the most outrageous stories and making her laugh both in the taproom and on her feather-filled mattress in the chamber above . |
| 5 | He had given her a sob-story and for a few hours — a few fatal hours — she had mistaken compassion for love . |
| 6 | It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard . |
| 7 | staining first appears in r3 ( a ) and after a few hours is joined by staining in r5 ( b ) . |
| 8 | Put a piece of raw meat into a stream and within a few hours it will be covered with small , flat , black worms feeding on it . |
| 9 | The proteins move in the electric current at a speed which depends on their electric charge and molecular weights , and within a few hours they have become distributed along the length of the gel — the procedure is called gel electrophoresis . |
| 10 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
| 11 | And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 12 | If I stood on a street corner somewhere , someone could slip me a small packet in exchange for a fiver and in a few hours I 'd be slumped on the floor of a public toilet : a Drug Statistic . |
| 13 | But for a few hours today there was hope . |
| 14 | But after a few hours it became hard to disguise . |
| 15 | But within a few hours the mood changed and what Docherty now describes as ‘ unforeseen forces ’ began to operate . |
| 16 | But within a few hours Mal was suffering exhaustion and Bill had injured himself falling on diamond-hard green ice on the Lhotse Face . |