In the night/at night

at night

How about this question? Thanks a lot for your reply.
I sleep eight hours ___.[A]at nightin the night

a night OR every night

Neither "at night" nor "in the night" sounds good to me.

What about these sentences?

1. They ran way [by night, at night, in the night].
2. The enemy attacked [by night, at night, in the night].
3. All the week, the enemy attacked our left side [by night, at night, in the night].

all the best.

Ah, Ms. Jandi-- onto the bandwagon, are we?

1. They ran away in the night. I like this one best; it sounds the most surreptitious.

2. The enemy attacked by night / at night / in the night. All three sound fine here, with slightly different nuances-- see below.

3. All week, the enemy attacked our left flank by night / in the night. 'At night' here soun

Yes, we are, MM! It's another happiness, isn't it?
Thank you and enjoy the end of not-working day.
Love!

0We usually use "at night" to express an action that occurs at a more or less02br
00precise point in that time period.02br
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00"I go to bed at night."02br
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00We use "in/during the night" to express an action that occurs over a period of02br
00time within that time period.02br
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00I sleep (usually for ei

0If something happens regularly during this period, you say that it happens01b00 at night.02b02br
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00If you want to say that something happened 01b00in the night, during the night,02b00 or01b00 last night.02b02br
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01cite10Teo12cite10If something happens regularly during this period, you say that it happens11b10 at night.12b12br
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10If you want to say that something happened 11b10in the night, during the night,12b10 or11b10 last night.12b12br
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0It often rains quite heavily 01b00in the night. At night02b00, I relax. 01b00During the night,02b00 the rain stopped.0-