Example sentences of "[noun] and [prep] [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child was allowed into the bedroom and for two hours she watched her father die . |
| 2 | The next evening he addressed a large anti-government rally in Bratislava and within 48 hours of his release , he was negotiating with the prime minister about political change . |
| 3 | ‘ The joke evolves down the pub in Newcastle , and the lorry driver tells it at a truck-stop and within 24 hours it 's all over the country . ’ |
| 4 | A compensatory increase in fat intake was seen after six hours and at 12 hours the total fat intake was the same as in the control group . |
| 5 | When you are at the beck and call of everyone for 14 hours a day for four days and for 8 hours on the fifth day each week you want a short space in which you relax and do just what you like . ’ |
| 6 | And when you 've made your choice , we 'll deliver your new machine and connect it to a suitable service point — completely free of charge and within 24 hours . |
| 7 | After ingestion and hatching the larvae penetrate the intestinal wall and within 48 hours have reached the liver . |
| 8 | ‘ But the greatest evil of all , ’ he complained , ‘ resulted from the constant intermingling , without any restraint , of persons of both sexes and all ages , at all times of the day and at all hours of the night . ’ |
| 9 | During the night and for several hours after dawn the summit remains clearly visible , but as the plain warms up in the morning sun , the hot air rises and becomes vapour at a given height . |
| 10 | Despite making reasonable progress , difficulties prevented the team from making the summit and after 24 hours effort they returned to base camp . |
| 11 | stakes and in twenty-two hours I |
| 12 | There was no significant difference between the 5 8 Co counts at baseline and at 4 hours . |
| 13 | I carried out tests and after eight hours he said he wanted to go home . |
| 14 | He was discharged from hospital and within 48 hours he was dead . |
| 15 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 16 | They walked round the city on Martin Luther King 's birthday and for 24 hours , made photo portraits of the black community in action . |
| 17 | Within 24 hours of treatment the growth pattern changes from the ‘ straight ’ to the ‘ coiling ’ form and in 72 hours numerous haustorial mounds can be seen . |