Example sentences of "up for [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | GIRDING up for six hours with the Mahabharata is a long training . |
| 2 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 3 | Put it in the fridge to firm up for 2–3 hours and then remove and leave to set overnight : if you chill everything except the aspic in the freezer beforehand , the terrine will set in half an hour . |
| 4 | This grub would set me up for forty-eight hours at least . |
| 5 | Despite a 150-strong police presence , traffic was held up for two hours as the farmers taunted Britons , shouting and waving banners which read ‘ Britain is an island . |
| 6 | But the men stayed locked up for two hours until their boss agreed they would repair the faulty central heating immediately — on overtime . |
| 7 | The morning train from Sidney picked up milk from various farms for shipment to Victoria and on at least one occasion it was held up for two hours while cows , that had been turned into the bush the previous night to pick up what nourishment they could were searched for , rounded up , milked and the milk loaded for the trip to town . |
| 8 | Matty and Chris 's return flight is held up for seven hours . |
| 9 | The reasons are pretty self-evident : no band could keep this up for three hours every night for nearly a year without having sold their souls to the rock ‘ n ’ roll devil long ago . |
| 10 | What a Rottweiler is not is a dog you can keep shut up for twenty-three hours a day . |
| 11 | Where inmates were once locked up for 23 hours everyday a more liberal attitude now prevails . |
| 12 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 13 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |