Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This was the rime when everyone had a siesta and for a few hours the village was virtually dead . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had given her a sob-story and for a few hours — a few fatal hours — she had mistaken compassion for love . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | staining first appears in r3 ( a ) and after a few hours is joined by staining in r5 ( b ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And within a few hours of taking it , that 's when this happened to me . |
| 10 | And within a few hours of meeting 25-year-old Chris , Heather agreed to spend the rest of her life with him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | After sporadic violence there from the beginning of the month , full scale rioting erupted on 8 July and in the early hours of 9th two men were shot dead by the army . |
| 13 | As a first step she must go to Paris to meet the Ministers and in the early hours of the morning she left by carriage for the Tuileries , where , on arrival , she immediately sent messages convoking a Council of Ministers . |
| 14 | Eleven bombers had taken off from Fenton Bishop last night , and in the early hours of the morning eleven had come home . |
| 15 | That night Lenin travelled incognito to Soviet and party headquarters and in the early hours of 25 October strategic points in the city were seized . |
| 16 | A proposal by Milosevic that the congress should continue without the Slovene delegation was rejected , and in the early hours of Jan. 23 Pancevski finally declared that the session , which had been due to adopt the full congress declaration and resolutions on the congress debate , as well as elect a new party leadership , had been adjourned . |
| 17 | Margaret McGregor , who chairs the licensing board at Edinburgh District Council , said the board was responding to police reports that the incidence of violent crime was greater at the weekends and in the early hours . |
| 18 | A month ago he went into Edinburgh for a night out and in the small hours was stabbed to death . |
| 19 | He was making a wonderful recovery and in the few hours we were there we managed to get him on to an ambulance train — off to Myitkyina to be flown out to India . |
| 20 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 21 | And in the last hours of night , Hell 's streets teemed with the addicts , the muggers . |
| 22 | She was barely aware of other tourists as the sound of their feet rang out on the cobbled streets , and over the following hours Fabia was deep in everything there was to see apart from the castle and the National Gallery with its collection of old and new European art . |