Example sentences of "[vb past] for [det] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a week it rained for several hours each day . |
| 2 | The snow was beginning to turn to rain next morning and , although the ground was white right to the shores , we all went ashore and walked for several hours . |
| 3 | On Saturday she again walked for some hours around and about the tree-lined , wide , clean streets of the spa town with its artistic colonnade and its many curative springs . |
| 4 | Next in was Ocean Quest on 11 December , with a time of 16 days , 10 hr , 9 min and 22 sec , but they also motored for many hours . |
| 5 | We fished for several hours without seeing so much as a fin . |
| 6 | We marched for several hours then rested in a thickly wooded area until darkness fell . |
| 7 | That night the Prime Minister and the King spoke for many hours . |
| 8 | The conflagration raged for many hours throughout the town , spreading rapidly through buildings already torn open by the blast , and with not a single person left alive to check it . |
| 9 | This living nightmare lasted for many hours until a sickly daylight showed again and the sun could be seen once more through the haze of dust . |
| 10 | A fight broke out within minutes , and lasted for several hours . |
| 11 | The battle lasted for several hours and at about 10.30 p.m. there was a further clash as a crowd charged the police and was dispersed by a counter-charge . |
| 12 | Then he became dopey and fell into a deep sleep that lasted for several hours . |
| 13 | He sat for many hours in front of a mirror , moving his joints , detecting stiffness in a knee , juggling with cakes of soap to see if he could still do it . |
| 14 | He considered for several hours , making notes and getting up now and then for books . |