Example sentences of "a few hours in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I needed to share all your life , not just a few hours in bed every night . ’
2 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 .
3 Sat and glowed with satisfaction for a few hours in silence , studying their effect .
4 ‘ All that remained was to kill a few hours in town , so I went to visit an old friend .
5 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 .
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