Example sentences of "a [adj] hours [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | Soon she realised that he was singing her praises to his friends , because other similar garden owners rang her up and asked her if she could do a few hours for them too . |
2 | The first time I get on , it is often after spending a few hours with them , and I kinda transfer over from the stable door to their backs . ’ |
3 | They actually reached Klagenfurt a few hours after us , so we could secure the best buildings and put sentries in them . |
4 | Well I reckon it 's gon na take us three and a half hours to get to the other end , so two and a half hours to it and an hour on it if it 's not too bad and then of course we 've got to go up from there to Ipswich , Woodbridge but it 's dual carriageway all the way now you see . |
5 | He 'd have had , say , five and a half hours of it . |
6 | They did n't need to take two and a half hours over it . |