Sentence examples for preceding two hours from inspiring English sources

An intermezzo of fromage blanc sorbet with macerated strawberries practically jumped off the table; in one bite, there was more excitement than I'd experienced in the preceding two hours, and this with probably five ingredients.

They were strolling along, chatting happily to each other, smiling and occasionally looking around with interest, their faces unshadowed by the catastrophe of the preceding two hours and unconscious of the challenges that lie ahead.

"Just because I lobbied for a statue of Elaine Paige outside Waitrose...!" The show climaxes with Tate's best-loved alter ego, the cackling, foul-mouthed Nan, whose journey to the theatre we've followed – via screened sketches featuring DJ Nick Grimshaw – throughout the preceding two hours.

He flags a taxi, slumps into the back seat and tells the cabbie to drive, and it's only then that you understand how eloquent Mr. Clooney's body language has been throughout the preceding two hours — how tensely he's been holding himself, how warily he's been sizing up his dangerous world.

In any case, the story may not end neatly, or even definitively, but ends satisfyingly, in a way that doesn't betray the preceding two hours' worth of honesty.

The memories of the preceding seven hours pile up.

For much of the preceding three hours, star turns had been better cushioned by group efforts.

It is a reasonable question given the preceding three hours, charting Johnson's first year in the Oval Office.

(Who knows how to cook one, anyway?) I found myself taking stock not of what I'd seen during the preceding seventy-two hours but of what I hadn't.

It is an excursion into the universe of Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not urban myth that prepares us - just about - for the uproarious biblical finale with which Anderson spectacularly discharges the unbearable tension and anxiety which has built up over the preceding three hours.

They showed us not the long night of vice but the longer day after it, when the men, stone-cold sober, are forced to realize, with increasing horror, what they have done to the world and to themselves in the preceding twelve hours.