Example sentences of "[prep] many hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | After many hours of listening solely to CD , I was also surprised at the sound quality of records played on decent equipment . |
| 2 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 3 | Youngsters suffer headaches , fatigue and lose the ability to socially interact after many hours playing the solitary games . |
| 4 | After many hours of fighting Sigmar Heldenhammer drove the greenskins from the field in rout and ended the threat to the Dwarf Empire for many years . |
| 5 | That 's the nocturnal Manx shear waters landing all around you , home again after many hours far out on the ocean . |
| 6 | Accordingly , after many false starts , after many hours in the sunless sea of bafflement , apology and flopsweat , Tod and I have finally cut it with Irene . |
| 7 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 8 | It was a long morning , but after many hours and a lot of giggling and parading , the three of them had chosen dresses . |
| 9 | Pete 's cooking was obviously the result of many hours over a hot Trangia . |
| 10 | He photographed the room in which the poet died ( in 1972 ) using an exposure time of many hours and making a negative print . |
| 11 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 12 | It is known in the House that the reality is a choice between many hours in Committee characterised by filibuster and slow progress , and a number of hours in Committee in which we make reasonable progress . |
| 13 | Because it 's about the afternoon there you see , it 's not such as many hours ahead as er Austra Au Australia , I mean , they 're eleven hours ahead . |
| 14 | for many hours on day one the river seemed amazingly narrow , one bank of it always being on the front end of my canoe . |
| 15 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |
| 16 | Neural cells can be kept in good condition in vivo for many hours , and provide a good chemical test system and model for memory . |
| 17 | Shorter and his lieutenants were wary of a trap and had watched the forest lodge near Caesar 's Camp for several hours before finally making their rendezvous with Baptist Nunn but , as they entered the building , they were surrounded by a dozen officers who had been lying doggo nearby for many hours . |
| 18 | Back at the hotel we hear the drums begin again and continue long into the night , past the time when exhaustion overcomes the excitement which keeps us from sleep for many hours . |
| 19 | An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours . |
| 20 | This living nightmare lasted for many hours until a sickly daylight showed again and the sun could be seen once more through the haze of dust . |
| 21 | The conflagration raged for many hours throughout the town , spreading rapidly through buildings already torn open by the blast , and with not a single person left alive to check it . |
| 22 | Uncomfortable feelings absorbed from those who seek our help ( and that includes simply offering a sympathetic ear ) , can linger for many hours or even days — unless we learn how to dissipate such feelings . |
| 23 | I have watched a shoal of bream in shallow water for many hours . |
| 24 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 25 | David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon . |
| 26 | On Fridays and other fast-days he would lock himself up in the church for many hours . |
| 27 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 28 | Activity-dependent synaptic potentiation occurs within milliseconds and can persist for many hours in the anaesthetised animal or in the in vitro hippocampal slice preparation , and for days when induced in the freely moving animal . |
| 29 | Expression without RP3 continues for many hours ( shown here 16h AEL ) but declines before the end of embryogenesis . |
| 30 | But to be able to hunt successfully , males have to remain close together — sometimes , when hunting success is low , for many hours and over several kilometres , and so unusual tolerance of each other is called for . |