I figger it's probl'y a sixty-five-mile walk, and I c'n maybe get this spring patched up in a couple of hours ''.

Because his mind had been otherwise occupied for the past couple of hours, he did not think to look and see if Jerry Burton's car was still there.

It was an awkward hour, but I didn't have to punch any time clock, and it only meant that sometimes I had to stay a couple of hours later at the drawing board to finish up a job.

Within a short while, he grasps what is at stake and warns the authorities that unless steps are taken immediately, the epidemic could kill off half the town's population of two hundred thousand within a couple of months .</ br > During the epidemic, Rieux heads an auxiliary hospital and works long hours treating the victims.

* Benzodiazepines are effective as medication given a couple of hours before surgery to relieve anxiety.

One study found that the first 3. 5 hours of sleep offer the greatest performance enhancement on memory recall tasks because the first couple of hours are dominated by SWS.

Over the course of the next couple of hours, the marine hears assorted garbled radio messages, gunfire, and screams, followed by silence: " Seems your buddies are dead.

For some hours yesterday there were never less than a couple of hundred persons waiting their turn of admission, and yet, after all, the diamond does not satisfy.

" The response from fans was overwhelmingly positive within a couple of hours, leading to speculation of a full-blown Meat Puppets reunion in the near future.

LARPs vary in size from a handful of players to several thousand, and in duration from a couple of hours to several days.

Originally, riders took stints of a couple of hours or more and the resting rider went off for a sleep or a meal.

After a couple of hours, another Prussian corps arrived on the battlefield to link with the British army, sealing the fate of the French force.

Ono has stated that the couple were thinking about going out to dinner ( after spending several hours in a recording studio ), but were returning to their apartment instead, because John wanted to see Sean before he was put to bed.

* The Daisan river, tributary of the Euphrates, floods Edessa, and within a couple of hours fills the entire city, except for the highest parts.

Field service could convert a 615 to a 635 or 625 or vice versa in a couple of hours if necessary ; other than those few wires, the 615, 625 and 635 were identical.

At a banquet, Count Adhemar tries to trip up the unsophisticated " Sir Ulrich " by urging him to show the other guests a dance from his own country ; William, who's only spent a couple of hours learning to dance that day before the banquet, improvises with Jocelyn and comes up with something suited to a rock video ( the featured song in this scene was " Golden Years " by David Bowie ).

Fick's lens was large, unwieldy, and could only be worn for a couple of hours at a time.

We did a session lasting a couple of hours and had some reasonable pictures to use ...

Truth is, Paradise is so small, you can walk it from top to bottom within a couple of hours.

Each Handler and K-9 partner were exposed to at least 500 hours of training and in a couple of instances as much as 800 hours to be certified as such.

In the winter, the public has access to five ski resorts within a couple hours of the city.

They try to test his sanity, but when Scott still says he is Santa they sentence him a couple hours in a jail cell.

Currently, only these express routes operate to and from downtown Houston during morning and evening commute hours ; METRO does not serve Katy with local routes, as most westbound bus lines in Houston terminate at or near Highway 6, a couple of miles before the Katy city limits.

Eight or ten years ago, a couple of French hoods stole a priceless Khmer head from the Musee Guimet, in Paris, and a week later crawled into the Salpetriere with unmistakable symptoms of leprosy.

A couple of days later a balletomane told me he had telephoned Allied Arts for ticket information and was told `` the newspapers had made a mistake ''.

After that, a year later, they made a couple of major improvements to the design.

The couple married a year later in Hawaii.

Already a couple of weeks later, an Antonov cargo plane crossed the border from Sudan and landed at Tiringoulou airport in C. A. R., where it unloaded weapons and about 50 armed men who spread out in the area.

A year later, the couple had their first child, Kong Li ( 孔鯉 ), both of whom Confucius was to abandon to develop his ideologies.

Brâncuși was cared for in his later years by a Romanian refugee couple.

The idiom made a brief appearance in the UK-based DJ reggae music of the 1980s in the hit " Cockney Translation " by Smiley Culture of South London ; this was followed a couple of years later by Domenick and Peter Metro's " Cockney and Yardie ".

However, only a couple of months later a new problem arose: the company that commercially ran the circuit ( CENAV ), called in the receiver and went out of business, marking the end of " Circuit van Zandvoort ".

' Let's Dance ', with its little narrative surrounding the young Aborigine couple, targeted ' youth ', and ' China Girl ', with its bare-bummed ( and later partially censored ) beach lovemaking scene ( a homage to the film From Here to Eternity ), was sufficiently sexually provocative to guarantee heavy rotation on MTV.

A couple of days later, Galois made his second and last attempt to enter the Polytechnique, and failed yet again.

Georges Méliès first used superimposition on a dark background in la Caverne maudite ( The Cave of the Demons ) made a couple of months later in 1898, and then elaborated it further with multiple superimpositions in the one shot in l ' Homme de têtes ( The Troublesome Heads ).

The couple later had three daughters: Taylor Mayne Pearl ( born 1992 ), August Anna ( born 1994 ) and Allie Colleen ( born 1996 ).

The couple were later nominated for a " Best Country Collaboration With Vocals " Grammy Award for the song.

The couple had nine children ( none became musicians ), but the marriage would later prove disastrous for Telemann.

This same couple may emphasize different aspects of intercourse on different occasions, being playful during one episode of intercourse ( recreational ), experiencing deep emotional connection on another occasion ( relational ), and later, after discontinuing contraception, seeking to achieve pregnancy ( reproductive, or more likely reproductive and relational ).

After their mother died suddenly six months later, the couple became intimately close, and had their first child together in 2001.

A couple of months later, Iceman, Exodus, Wild Child, and Morph were sent on a secret mission by Magneto ; only Wild Child's fate was revealed.

Khan's assumption of ownership was approved a couple of weeks later by the NFL owners, and Khan took over full ownership on January 4, 2012.

Sellers later appeared The Family Way ( 1966 ) about a young married couple and their down-to-earth family.

The couple married seven years later, on 19 June 1843, at the Wilhelmskirche in Kreuznach.

The couple married in 1950 and later divorced.

The couple married later that year, but were divorced a year later in 1971.