Example sentences of "a [adj] hours in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 2 | I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’ |
| 3 | SEPARATED BY just a few miles in distance and a few hours in time , the West 's most powerful central banker and the Soviet prime minister were yesterday at one : immediate and full scale price reform would only confront the Soviet Union with runaway inflation . |
| 4 | Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect . |
| 5 | The earlier row was over a decision by magistrates in Aylesbury to let two offendors wipe out a thousand pounds in fines by spending a few hours in police cells . |
| 6 | A few hours in Richard 's company was just the antidote she needed to Luke 's volatility . |
| 7 | ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend . |
| 8 | He spent only a few hours in prison ; but when he was released the heads of all the foreign missions in London ( except that of Sweden , which was then at war with Russia ) accompanied him to his house in a demonstration of solidarity and next morning visited him to promise their support . |
| 9 | Wool sorters at Exeter worked " from the time of being able to discern the wool until the evening " , which amounted to about eight and a half hours in winter and twelve in summer . |
| 10 | We would have about three and a half hours in Swansea , an excellent shopping centre . |
| 11 | Before the exhibition opened on Monday , 11 March last , Mr Isherwood , ARPS , APAGB , an official appointed by the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain , spent two and a half hours in Chapman Gallery carefully weighing and considering before he settled on the winners . |
| 12 | The whole service has taken some five and a half hours in gale force winds and heavy seas . |