1.   A battery of field guns had been increasing its activity over the last hour, Reeves reported.

2.   He had spent the last few hours being photographed with the wounded and giving endless interviews.

3.   In most healthy individuals body temperature begins to rise during the last few hours of sleep just before they awaken.

4.   In the last hour before the breaking of the Ramadan fast, the courtyards and rooftops were filling with people.

5.   The preeminence assigned to last hours on earth gave a special significance to the final words of the dying.

6.   We have a last few hours in a freebie hotel.

7.   Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion.

8.   Her optimism, her joy of life in those last hours, had nourished the medical staff.

9.   She had been looking at the castle for the last hour.

10.   I have been studeously avoiding doing my work for the last few hours.