1.   Best friend Louise Grimer found Tina unconscious at the foot of the stairs at her home in the early hours of Sunday.

2.   Even at the early hour I was taken with her freshness, her blond, tousled hair, her milk-warm voluptuous body.

3.   He did not wish to appear on the terrasse of the Continental at such an early hour.

4.   He stays up until the early hours devouring the news wires.

5.   I mean, neither of us had eaten since the early hours, and drinking on an empty stomach is dodgy.

6.   In Gilby, water has been flooding the town since the early hours.

7.   In the early hours of the morning, at about three, Stephen jerked awake from a nightmare.

8.   In the early hours of this morning, the hostages were reunited with their families at Point Reach airbase.