Example sentences of "in hospital for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman , who will be scarred for life , was treated in hospital for a number of injuries including a 3in cut to her neck . |
| 2 | Professor Geoffrey Codd , a microbiologist from Dundee University and expert on blue-green algae said two cadets had been seriously ill and were detained in hospital for a week . |
| 3 | They were told a carefully graduated series of lies : first that their mother was staying in hospital for a while , then that she might not come home for a long time , and finally that she might never come back . |
| 4 | After surgery , you could be in hospital for a considerable time — and if you were missing overtime pay or sales bonuses because you were unable to work , you could have financial difficulties . |
| 5 | Thus , when a doctor asks for an X-ray or path lab test , or prescribes drugs , or decides that a patient should remain in hospital for a further two days , he is making a financial as well as a clinical decision . |
| 6 | He was in hospital for a total of three months . |
| 7 | He was in hospital for a long time with the doctors far from optimistic that he would recover . |
| 8 | Tim falling down the Kud and brought in by a kind Indian , unconscious for a day , and in hospital for a week . |
| 9 | In some surgical units , many patients are only in hospital for a day ( e.g. Peter ) or may be discharged very quickly after surgery ( e.g. Mrs Fellows ) . |
| 10 | At four I stay with her when my mother spends a week in hospital for a minor operation . |
| 11 | They kept me in hospital for a week , even though after the first day they were able to tell me that my violent indigestion following my curry debauch had not dislodged — or even seriously inconvenienced my small passenger . |
| 12 | Then he covered it up quickly with a look of studied indifference ( very unconvincing ) and mumbled some nonsense about you being in hospital for a few days for a check-up . |
| 13 | Most patients can cope with unacknowledged grief and anxiety because they are in hospital for a short time . |
| 14 | It put Dave Scadding in hospital for a few days , but did not prevent the crew members still on their feet from putting in some hard graft , and rummage successes began to roll in . |
| 15 | Tom will want to check for proteinuria and test your reflexes , but even if those things are normal he and Dr Greene may want to pop you in hospital for a while . ’ |
| 16 | CATHERINE I was in hospital for a bit . |
| 17 | Obviously you were in hospital for a number of weeks . |
| 18 | Officials could not say if the Queen Mother was expected to stay in hospital for a second night and did not divulge the nature of the obstruction . |
| 19 | There was a car crash , she died , he was in hospital for a long time and when he came out everything had changed . |
| 20 | His wife 's likely to be in hospital for a day or so . |
| 21 | he was later treated in hospital for a head injury . |
| 22 | He 'll be in hospital for a few more days , while surgeons see how his wounds are healing . |
| 23 | She was in hospital for a month and is still in a wheelchair . |
| 24 | Janet adds : ‘ Before the idea of the ‘ drop-in ’ centre , we would have been forced to admit the mother and she would have been in hospital for a few days . |
| 25 | Yeah , they had n't been in hospital for a few years , they have n't , I 've never known to go in . |
| 26 | Erm er just made an observation about er experience in hospital with children and apparently when kids have been in hospital for a length of time they do n't object so much when you go along and stick a the |