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Example sentences for "hours before"

  • Cut the fruit into slices, put it into a glass dish with sugar sprinkled between, squeeze over some lemon juice and pour over 1 glass claret; place the dish on ice for 1 or 2 hours before serving.

  • Should the pork be very salt, let it remain in water about 2 hours before it is dressed; put it into a saucepan with sufficient cold water to cover it, let it gradually come to a boil, then gently simmer until quite tender.

  • Cleanse the fish thoroughly, and rub a little salt over the thick part and inside of the fish, 1 or 2 hours before dressing it, as this very much improves the flavour.

  • It should not be turned out, but sent to table in the pie-dish, and is better for being made about 2 hours before it is baked.

  • Cleanse the fish thoroughly, and rub a little salt over the thick part and inside of the fish 1 or 2 hours before dressing it, as this very much improves the flavour.

  • It should not be turned out, but sent to table in the pie-dish, and is better for being made about two hours before it is baked.

  • The kernels of soaked nuts should be dried for 24 hours before weighing, preferably under the same conditions in which the samples were stored before weighing.

  • Soaking one hour and holding 24 hours in a closed container like a coffee can give good results but percentage should be figured on dry weight and kernels should be air dried for 24 hours before weighing.

  • After the Boat was hoisted in we stood away North by West for the Northermost land we had in sight, which we were abreast of at 3 o'Clock in the Morning, having passed all the Islands 3 or 4 hours before.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cash crops; described above; first reception; good test; having received; her mother; hours after; hours before; hours later; hundred other; left the; month before; naval stores; played upon; pretty fair; resist the; shaped spots; that now; thousand kine; threw down; transmitted from; walnut tree; went quickly; winter visitor