Example sentences of "a couple of hour [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you spare a couple of hours on a Tuesday morning six times a year ? |
| 2 | Has anyone said to you ‘ It will not take up much of your time , only a couple of hours on a Friday evening ’ ? |
| 3 | ‘ You might as well have a couple of hours on the settee , ’ Molly suggested , then turned away in her embarrassment . |
| 4 | After that I 'd spend a couple of hours on the script . |
| 5 | that 's probably just as well , so it 's on , a couple of hours onto the service really is n't it ? |
| 6 | On Friday we 're playing for a couple of hours with a few suprise guests one had considerably more hair than the rest of the band put together . |
| 7 | Then they ( the police ) would lock me up for a couple of hours at a time but I did n't get charged until I was 15 . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm more like Cinderella , are n't I , having a couple of hours at a ball before she returns to the dishes ? ’ |
| 9 | The time-consuming nature of Janet 's part in the process , combined with a bad back which prevents her spending more than a couple of hours at the drawing board every day , means she can not keep up with her husband 's prolific output . |
| 10 | Most users would then have to wait only a couple of hours for a new telephone . |
| 11 | It took only a couple of hours for the news to reach Washington DC . |
| 12 | As a man of action — as he never tired of telling people — he had stuck his multi-million-pound Granny Bond idea together on the back of an envelope in a couple of hours after the introduction of Budget changes which made it possible . |
| 13 | One day she went to her favourite place , a beach a couple of hours from the city , and realized she 'd become a stressed-out workaholic . |
| 14 | The second and third weekend I get to the lake just before daybreak armed with a pair of binoculars and settle down for a couple of hours in a spot which gives me a good view of all , or most , of the water . |
| 15 | ‘ I had a couple of hours in a bone-shaker of a fur-lined mini-van ! ’ |
| 16 | If , literally , all the time you can spare , is five minutes in the morning before you go to work , and a couple of hours in the evening when you come home , then you would probably be better off with a caged animal , such as a hamster or bird . |
| 17 | All right , a couple of hours in the files , but I lock you in . |
| 18 | Yeah I think I 'll walk down to Green went out for a couple of hours in the morning felt grotty did n't go out at all . |