Example sentences of "for [adj] hours [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One plant had to get light for eight hours per day and the other one had to get light for sixteen hours a day , so another wheel at this end did this job when this went around so many times . |
| 2 | Puts those strange beings who hang out in London 's Forbidden Planet to shame : at the big bookstores in Tokyo 's student district , some will stand there reading Rapeman for eight hours on end |
| 3 | Nobody sits in their for eight hours of an evening ! |
| 4 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 5 | He waited with her for eight hours at the Northampton car park . |
| 6 | He walked through the mountains for seventy-two hours after escaping . |
| 7 | And then you just put the numbers in for different hours into the equation into the formula that tells you how far he 's gone , work it out . |
| 8 | His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there . |
| 9 | Cells were then shocked with 25% DMSO in Hanks solution for 3 min and then incubated for 30 hours in fresh DME-Medium containing 10%FCS at 37°C with 5% CO 2 . |
| 10 | Anyway , Norman , despite all these wheels , spends much of his time in aircraft but tells chum Renton Laidlaw that he has the ability to sleep from Los Angeles to Sydney , at least , for 12 hours of the 14-hour journey . |
| 11 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Prehybridisations and hybridisations were performed [ in 5 SSC , 1 Denhardt 's , 0.05 M Sodium Phosphate , 10% Dextran , 50% formamide ] with 0.05 mg/ml of sheared human placental DNA ( Sigma ) for 12 hours at 42°C . |
| 14 | Joanne , 17 , of Sunderland , lay dead at the bottom of the pool for 12 hours on Monday while people swam above her . |
| 15 | On May 16 some 900 army conscripts took control of the international airport at Abidjan , the capital , for 12 hours in protest at low levels of pay and poor employment prospects . |
| 16 | Lice can be cleared best with special lotions which evaporate on contact with the scalp and should be left on for 12 hours before shampooing away . |
| 17 | He quickly regained consciousness but was kept under observation for 12 hours before being returned to the prison where he has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest off the Moroccan coast by the Royal Navy last August . |
| 18 | Briefly , aliquots of the dried extracts were treated with 0.03 N NaOH in methanol for 2 hours at room temperature . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 15ml reactions contained 5 ml of undiluted nuclear extract ( obtained from ∼10 6 cells ) , 5U of calf intestinal phosphatase and were incubated for 2 hours at 37°C in a buffer containing 20 mM HEPES pH8.0 , 20 mM MgCl 2 , 40 mM KCl and 0.6 mM PMSF . |
| 21 | Now 45 people had joined together for 2 hours of fun . |
| 22 | Hybridisation was performed at 60°C in 80% formamide and the samples were digested at 37°C for 2 hours after which the protected fragments were fractionated by denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis . |
| 23 | I was out for 2 hours from about 2.30 . |
| 24 | Thus we are told , for example , that in the late 1980s there are 10,000 Latin American students enrolled in Soviet universities compared with the 144 who were attending Patrice Lumumba in 1960 ; that in 1982 Latin Americans could tune in to Soviet radio broadcasting for 105 hours per week compared with only 63 in 1962 and that at least seventeen Soviet journals are now translated and distributed in Latin America , six of which also appear in Portuguese ( Blasier : 1983 , pp. 12–13 and pp. 191–2 ; Goldhamer : 1972 , p. 147 ) . |
| 25 | Steven Osbourne , 30 , used three lines nearly every day for six months — sometimes for 22 hours at a time — to ring the Wheel of Fortune . |
| 26 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 27 | Why she was here , she could n't imagine ; but her head was clearer than it had been in a long time , which meant that she must have gone for some hours without any kind of an injection . |
| 28 | Still driven by the storm they were carried west for some hours into another narrow passage , though now the current had reversed , so what appeared to be a great ebb-tide came rushing towards them . |
| 29 | ‘ However , in my opinion the body had lain for some hours after death in a supine position . ’ |
| 30 | We have all heard of the addiction caused by long-term taking of tranquillisers but did you realise that the effect of sleeping pills can last well into the following day and many antihistamines ( commonly taken to relieve colds or allergies ) can make you so drowsy that you should not drive for some hours after taking them ? |