Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [num] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | Solent Diagnostics has introduced a new non greasy , non toxic , barrier cream skin protection product that will give full protection for four hours with one application . |
| 2 | FIRE closed the main A19 Tees viaduct for two hours at Middlesbrough last night . |
| 3 | Do n't wash your hair for 48 hours after your perm . |
| 4 | So sudden had been his demise that , very soon afterwards , prior to robing , in order to avert any suspicion as to its cause , his body , with face , arms and chest uncovered , was laid out on a board for nine hours . |
| 5 | Maybe after all he 'd have been better off like his Dad , quietly pushing papers round a desk in an office at the Gas Board for nine hours a day for nearly fifty years . |
| 6 | The BT men at Kidlington , Oxford , left the phone off the hook for 36 hours at a time . |
| 7 | RNA was extracted with guanidinium thiocyanate ( RNAzol B , Cinna Biotex , Friendwood , Texas , USA ) and electrophoresed on a formamide/agarose gel for 12 hours at 35 V before transfer to a nitrocellulose filter . |
| 8 | I 'm not suggesting that we chain Peter to Caliban for eighteen hours a day . |
| 9 | They will fly at low level for two hours , with many men suffering the effects of air sickness and dehydration . |
| 10 | Ask your butcher to put a boned pig 's cheek into brine for 24 hours . |
| 11 | Plasminogen activating activity was determined by the fibrin plate method after incubation for 24 hours at 37°C and the results expressed as IU tissue polasminogen activator/ ml ascitic fluid ( lower limit of detection 0.02 IU/ ml ) . |
| 12 | Before and after eating the meal and every hour for six hours , the subjects were asked to record hungr sensations on a 100 mm vertical visual analogue scale , placing crosses on lines representing ranges from ‘ not hungry at all ’ =0 to ‘ as huntry as possible ’ =100 . |
| 13 | The satiety sensation was recorded after the meal and every hour for six hours using the same kind of visual analogue scale with ‘ empty stomach ’ =0 and ‘ full ’ =100 . |
| 14 | However , the largest of these in 1892 set to work only 253 out of 716 applicants in West Ham , converting wasteland to allotments at 6d. an hour for 45 hours work per week . |
| 15 | She says : ‘ I check the women 's blood pressure on the hour for five hours . |
| 16 | He answered : ’ We hope the national minimum wage — currently £3.40 an hour for 40 hours before stoppages — will rise . ’ |
| 17 | In addition to classroom support Mrs says that Paul needs general support for three hours per evening in relation to his er social well being in his leisure activities three hours per evening for the four evenings a week which he spends at school , in relation to this I think it right to bear in mind Mr evidence about the school , being a special school of course has generous staffing levels , staffing levels which would make the mouth of any head teacher of any other school water I suspect . |
| 18 | Rabbit reticulocyte lysate ( 2ml ) containing 35 S-labelled in vitro translated proteins was treated with 5U of calf intestinal phosphatase for 2 hours at 37°C in 12ml reactions containing 20 mM HEPES pH8.0 , 20 mM MgCl 2 , 40 mM KCl and 0.6 mM PMSF . |
| 19 | In his next letter Leslie told me that on that day he had been assigned ‘ a rather painful duty … from 4 o'clock this afternoon for 24 hours I am escort to an officer under close arrest , a captain , I believe . |
| 20 | Even so , Faldo , with a 71 , still finished top European , overtaking Ian Woosnam , who had shared the lead after two rounds and was still sharing it after three holes in the third on Saturday when a storm interrupted play for three hours . |
| 21 | Kidnappers strip victim A 26-YEAR-OLD man turned up naked on a garage forecourt after being held by a kidnap gang for three hours . |
| 22 | It denied that it represented a danger to the public , insisting that it would have to pressed to the skin for 30 hours before the dose limit was reached . |
| 23 | He points , too , to the ‘ gross overheating ’ of many hotels whereas modern boiler systems and local sectional control insulation can produce savings of up to 35 per cent , and to the fact that recycling one glass bottle from a hotel bar can light a 60W bulb for four hours . |
| 24 | Briefly , HT-29 cells were incubated in L-15 medium containing 50 U/ml of IFN γ with or without drug for 72 hours . |
| 25 | Tony takes the hint and decides not to wax equally lyrical about the Svalbard storm that kept everyone in the tent for seventy-two hours , unable to go out for anything . |
| 26 | He was in charge of the casual wards as well as of all ‘ workhouse ’ inmates and ‘ test ’ workers — the latter being men sent on trial for twenty-four hours a week by the relieving officer . |
| 27 | On the other hand , in a short-term study using the artificial pancreas , normalisation of blood glucose for 48 hours led to a significant fall in β-thromboglobulin levels ( Voisin et al , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | I mean , doing shorthand for four hours a day , it 's too much ! |
| 29 | A prison librarian who was held hostage in a cell for thirteen hours has been freed . |
| 30 | As the efficiency of the detector was very low ( it was small and , they estimated , only recorded less than one in a million of any neutrons emitted by the cell ) , they counted neutrons at the cell for 50 hours . |