Example sentences of "for [det] hours [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from some salty garlic bread , neither of them had had anything to eat for some hours beforehand so despite the fact that the party was hardly properly underway yet , they were both feeling the effects of the drink . |
| 2 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 3 | She had drifted off , and had been fast asleep for some hours when the sound of someone 's keeping their finger pressed on her doorbell roused her from a deep sleep . |
| 4 | I should have water for some hours yet , but I did n't know how long I 'd be ashore , and as the shingle here seemed fairly hard I reckoned I could get the rubber dinghy to the water even at low tide . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mutinous soldiers occupied the state radio station in Niamey , the capital , on three occasions between Feb. 28 and March 1 and held prisoner for several hours both André Salifou , Chairman of the High Council of the Republic ( HCR — the transitional legislative assembly ) , and Interior Minister Mohammed Mousa . |
| 7 | I just screamed as loudly as I could — more from the shock than anything else , and I did n't stop crying for several hours afterwards . |
| 8 | Fresh material should be put into water and allowed to drink for several hours as soon after cutting as possible . |
| 9 | We marched for several hours then rested in a thickly wooded area until darkness fell . |
| 10 | Er , if the person er is sitting watching the television and er has been awake for several hours then we are at a disadvantage . |
| 11 | Newton Cap bridge on the A689 at Bishop Auckland was closed for several hours yesterday afternoon when a lorry shed its load . |
| 12 | The Iraqi embassy in Brussels was occupied for several hours early on April 3 by Kurds protesting at the massacre of their people by Iraqi troops . |