Example sentences of "few hours [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf . |
| 2 | A few hours later the verdict was in . |
| 3 | A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor . |
| 4 | She 'd only known him a few hours yet every cell of her body seemed sensitised to his presence . |
| 5 | They had been afloat only a few hours when a seaman shouted down the hatch . |
| 6 | When a sergeant congratulated one section on the improvement in the language in the guard room over the last few hours when the field-worker had been present , one constable shouted , ‘ Fucking good job too , Sir ’ ( FN 2/2/87 , p. 6 ) , and the occupational culture of the station soon reasserted its typical forms of expression , which are widespread in all police forces and occupational cultures that are predominantly masculine and working class . |