Example sentences of "[num] hours i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 2 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 3 | Yeah although it did n't , it did n't I w I was n't too concerned about it , I thought well you know I 'm resting er and er I 'm the sort of person who only needs about six hours , if I get six hours I 'm okay erm , you know , on a regular basis I 'm talking about . |
| 4 | No , it 's thirteen hours I want |
| 5 | For the next three hours I witness a surreal nightmare of racing fire engines , caravans of police cars with blue and red lights flashing , a few looting bands , but mostly residents in bathrobes and curlers , gathered in silence to watch corner markets go up in smoke . |
| 6 | As someone who made little enough progress beyond Youll Cup school tennis and county junior teams in 20 years , I remain to be convinced but I enjoyed the three hours I spent reading the book . |
| 7 | For three hours I was sitting in a dressing gown . |
| 8 | I don I do n't know if it 'll be three hours I mean ideally I know it should be it just depends how we we can fit it in . |
| 9 | ‘ In only three hours I will be delivering the most difficult speech of my life . |
| 10 | Well it was twenty three hours I was going to say twenty four hours ago , but twenty three hours . |
| 11 | Yeah , but it 's quite , I do n't know how to , it 's about three hours I should think . |
| 12 | Fourteen hours I said . |
| 13 | I could n't wait to zoom off towards the seacat to go to France , but in 5 hours I would be . |
| 14 | To rapturous applause he told them : ‘ For the next two-and-a-half hours I am going to work your asses like you 've never been worked before . |
| 15 | I 'm there twelve hours I I . |
| 16 | For five hours I had thought about and written about Machu Picchu at the highest level of my consciousness . |
| 17 | If I do that that 's five hours I 'll have built up in one week . |
| 18 | For 13 hours I lay shivering in my inadequate bag , drifting in and out of sleep . |
| 19 | After two hours I began to wonder if he had stitched me up and then , worse , whether he was back at the flat with Alison . |
| 20 | For more than two hours I stood at bay while a nonstop torrent of crockery poured down on me ; thousands and thousands of plates , every one bearing a smear of cottage pie , a blob of cold gravy , a few adhering chips . |
| 21 | Within two hours I had all the information I needed to know . |
| 22 | In the last two hours I discover that he is a pharmacist , a male nurse , and a killer . |
| 23 | I 've got to make allowances you see cos I 've got to fill the day f with jobs for the other lads , so if I allow two hours I 've got to fill the other six . |
| 24 | he he 's got ta do this thirty hours I think it is |
| 25 | stakes and in twenty-two hours I |
| 26 | ‘ That 's the second time in twenty-four hours I 've had a swim in that damned water . |
| 27 | But within twenty-four hours I told Ted that his only chance of carrying on as Leader was if he submitted himself to an early election through the 1922 Committee . |
| 28 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |