Example sentences of "a [adj] [adj] hour ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably he had snatched a few more hours ' sleep , she decided morosely , while she 'd been traipsing fruitlessly up and down Strøget . |
| 2 | If there was one fixed rule in her life , it was to make sure that she had a regular eight hours ' sleep every night . |
| 3 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 4 | That meant she had a good eight hours ' start before anyone need even think about her absence . |
| 5 | The pubs did n't shut until eleven o'clock so we would have a good three hours ' fun . |
| 6 | Livings took a bare two hours ' sleep that night . |
| 7 | Leith gathered up her bag , her thoughts already on getting home and trying to get a full eight hours ' sleep so as to be sharp for work in the morning . |
| 8 | After a restless few hours ' sleep , Fabia awakened to daylight and the concrete knowledge that for her sister 's sake she could not accept defeat on that interview issue . |