Example sentences of "and [prep] [art] [det] 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 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |