Example sentences of "be [adv] a few hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been only a few hours , but that was enough to ensure that birthdays would always fall on public holidays and the correct number of hours could therefore be spent languishing . |
| 2 | Mountain ranges , the desert and Palm Springs are just a few hours ' drive away . |
| 3 | Her mother Fran said : ‘ I can not believe we are just a few hours from going home . |
| 4 | ‘ In that case you should have been here a few hours ago . ’ |
| 5 | I was sad to leave the boat , we had made many friends despite the trip being only a few hours long . |
| 6 | Three days into our trek we were only a few hours short of the first Zanskari hamlet . |
| 7 | And when we were only a few hours from our turn to life off , we had last-minute visitors . |
| 8 | It 's only a few hours now . ’ |
| 9 | Dateline … swindon monday morning … six o clock … the Link Centre … for most folk the start of the working week is still a few hours away … but the Tigersharks are wide awake and raring to go … |
| 10 | The deadline for the surrender of the Securitate secret police was only a few hours ago . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |