Sentence examples for the previous three hours from inspiring English sources

The landmarks were left immaculate, with no traces of the revelry of the previous three hours.

For the previous three hours, the officers held their line while being approached by several people who gestured at them or aired complaints.

In the previous three hours, the force also said it had released three of the nine men it was holding for questioning as of this afternoon.

Hardly surprising, when he's spent the previous three hours dashing about the stage, running in and out of rooms, donning disguises, engaging in elaborate mimes and generally keeping the audience riotously entertained.

He accused her of failing to respond to a single issue raised during the previous three hours of testimony, asking, "What the hell were you here for?" When Ms. Hickey, remaining relatively unruffled throughout the lambasting, asserted that she has a plan for fixing V.B.A., Mr. Filner was incredulous.

My wife's parents' cook, I found out the following day, spent half the night searching the streets for her son; he had gone out to defy the Basijis and got home at five in the morning, having spent the previous three hours hiding in the house of a stranger.

The audience has been silently asking the same thing for the previous two hours.

We weren't doing anything different than we were in the previous five hours".

He'd spent the previous four hours contacting Haitian authorities, working to secure an S.N.O.

In the previous twenty-four hours, no one had talked to her.

I pretended to scan the contents as I replayed the previous eight hours in my head.