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Example sentences for "many hours"

  • Thalia, more dead than alive, after so many hours' endurance of cold, hunger, and dismay.

  • Many hours elapsed in fruitless search after him, as we could not discover a single track in the direction which we were informed he had taken.

  • If anything of importance has to be bought, many hours, sometimes many days, elapse between the opening of the business and its conclusion.

  • The first visit to a Harem is a very exhausting business, for everyone feels shy, and everyone is stupid, and the stupidity and shyness last many hours.

  • They boded and brooded, but would lie there for the many hours of morning and midday that remained.

  • Goneril chided her with very little regard to distinction of class; but they had been fellow-sufferers for so many hours, she seemed in a manner privileged.

  • She knew very well that the other arm was the real trouble; and she knew, too, that leaving it for so many hours unattended to might make it a bad business.

  • With pen in hand, extracting beautiful passages and expanding suggested thoughts, she forgot her griefs and beguiled many hours, which would otherwise have been burdened with intolerable wretchedness.

  • Unsupported by any of those consolations which religion affords, many hours of the blackest gloom must have enveloped them.

  • Many hours of every day she beguiled in writing the memoirs of her own life.

  • Breakfast was on the minute, an hour in his study to attend to affairs about the place, so many hours in his office at the mills, in the president's room at the bank, vestry and charity meetings at regular intervals.

  • I can't say that I've given as many hours as I should have liked to a study of the subject, but I don't know of any class that has a harder time.

  • Many hours later, when the moon was waning towards the horizon, fearful of surprise by the coming day, I was riding slowly under the trees on the road to New Orleans.

  • She is now again fast asleep, and watched by one of the maidens, and in all probability will not move for many hours; but every moment of such sleep is precious, and she must not be disturbed.

  • Coward that I am, to have lost so many hours!

  • The men not having had refreshment of any kind during the labour and excitement of so many hours, began to flag in their exertions.

  • Velika is not cut off from Montenegro, but the mountain connecting it with, so to speak, the mainland is steep and almost inaccessible, besides entailing a long and weary détour of many hours.

  • A violent thunderstorm had raged incessantly for many hours, and the streets were in parts inundated.

  • At the bridge we had to dismount and cross on foot, and a very painful operation it proved after so many hours in the saddle.

  • Most people, indeed, slept as many hours out of the traditional twenty-four as they could manage.

  • He made him estimate the change in brightness to be expected after so many hours in overdrive, if one broke out to measure.

  • There should have been a crisp description of the direction from the planet's center at which, a certain time so many hours or minutes later, the force-fields of the grid would find it convenient to lock onto and lower the Med Ship.

  • We were this day at noon about the middle of the bay of Biscay, when the wind once more deserted us, and we were so entirely becalmed, that we did not advance a mile in many hours.

  • That is the place to which the pirates have gone; if you manage as I advise you, you may trap the whole of them before to-morrow is many hours old.

  • No other persons being found alive below, Roger, with those he had rescued, shoved off from the sinking wreck, and from her appearance he judged she would not keep afloat many hours longer.

  • That time was not due for many hours yet, when Gwen got speech of her cousin.

  • In so many hours, so many minutes, that image as it was will be vanishing, that name will be a memory.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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