Example sentences of "a few hours [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 2 | He called on me at the apartment a few hours before I left for the airport . |
| 3 | It would be a few hours before she could face Marguerite , and no doubt the girl , Marie , would be very quick to tell Alain 's mother that she had seen the Englishwoman wandering into the woods like a lunatic . |
| 4 | Mr Mekgwe was reportedly last seen in the company of three ANC men a few hours before he was due to give evidence . |
| 5 | It 's a few hours before he 's due onstage at the Tower Theater in Houston and Mister C is telling me , in a roundabout way , what his name stands for . |
| 6 | ELVIS PRESLEY 'S last letter , written a few hours before he died , was to an elderly woman he looked on almost as a mother . |
| 7 | Newman recalled briefly his experience at The Nag 's Head a few hours before he ended up in hospital . |
| 8 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 9 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 10 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , there is no certain way of knowing of food is dangerous … until a few hours after it is eaten . |
| 12 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 13 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 14 | In the early evening of 25 August 1944 , a few hours after he had arrived in liberated Paris , de Gaulle stood at a window of the Hôtel de Ville and acknowledged the cheers of thousands of Parisians gathered down below . |
| 15 | Police believe he died a few hours after he was abducted . |