0 the hours immediately after midnight -- små timer
He woke up in the small hours.
It has every potentially stultifying quality but is genuinely readable, even gripping, keeping one from one's bed in the small hours, resistant to the delay of note-taking.
During that period we discovered every place in the building where one could "get one" in the small hours of the morning.
We were not planning to filibuster it into the small hours of the morning.
It is quite unnecessary to sit until the small hours of the morning like this.
Those of us who have been here until the small hours of the morning during the present week have seen enough of it.
It is only twenty minutes past nine, and quite recently we have been used to sitting up till the small hours of the morning.
I am told that we have passed that already in the small hours of this morning.
I cannot understand why he wants to press on at such speed in the small hours.
