Example sentences of "be [verb] for 24 hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 2 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 3 | Sergeant Raymond Mitchell , of Cape Town police , told TODAY : ‘ Sharon had not been seen for 24 hours , and in the current climate in the country , we were anxious for her welfare . |
| 4 | After either Nicocheck or Nicotine Patch had been worn for 24 hours plasma nicotine ( 0.2 µg/l ) and cotinine ( 0.2 µg/l ) concentrations were unchanged , indicating no absorption . |
| 5 | Prophylactic intravenous antibiotics ( 8 g mezlocillin daily ) were given for 24 hours . |
| 6 | The animals were fasted for 24 hours and then their abdomen was opened and the stomach exposed under light ether anaesthesia . |
| 7 | Male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing about 250 g were fasted for 24 hours and killed by decapitation . |
| 8 | A Dublin drinker As two Gulf newspapers were banned for 24 hours for advertising a Beaujolais wine festival , the United Arab Emirates used bulldozers to crush 9,000 bottles of confiscated whisky and 1,500 cans of beer into the desert sands . |
| 9 | Lurpak is made from cream which is ripened for 24 hours before it is churned , a process which imparts its distinctive flavour , and it is subject to rigorous independent testing at every stage of production . |
| 10 | For this one day a year , the usually gridlocked streets of New York were closed to traffic and lined with nearly three million people who proved that when the craziness and complexity is forgotten for 24 hours , they can be among the most decent and welcoming supporters of the human spirit they were witnessing and cheering in the runners thronging their streets . |
| 11 | Uses a ‘ sponge and dough ’ process ; part of the dough is left for 24 hours and then added to new dough . |
| 12 | A SEARCH is under way for the two-man crew of a light aircraft after wreckage of the single-engined Grob , which had been missing for 24 hours , was found beside Loch Muick , near Ballater , Grampian . |
| 13 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 14 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 15 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 16 | Monitoring was continued for 24 hours . |
| 17 | To find out whether cytokine treatment would modulate ICAM-1 expression in HT-29 and CaCo-2 cells , each of the cell lines was incubated for 24 hours in the absence or presence of IFN-γ ( 100 U/ml ) , IL-1Β ( 100 U/ml ) , or TNF-α ( 10 ng/ ml ) . |