Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [adj] hour in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We rode for five hours in the rain . |
| 2 | We had flown for thirty hours in the fortnight . |
| 3 | Activity-dependent synaptic potentiation occurs within milliseconds and can persist for many hours in the anaesthetised animal or in the in vitro hippocampal slice preparation , and for days when induced in the freely moving animal . |
| 4 | This has got ta defrost for four hours in the fridge . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Briefly , antigen strips preincubated for one hour in blocking buffer ( 5% non-fat milk powder in phosphate buffered saline pH 7.2 , containing 0.05% Tween 20 ) were incubated overnight at room temperature in serum samples ( diluted 1:100 v/v in blocking buffer ) or mouse monoclonal antibody GL2 that recognises Giardia heat shock antigen ( diluted 1:1000 v/v in blocking buffer ) . |
| 7 | THREE 14-year-old Scouts were found yesterday after being trapped for 18 hours in torrential rain on a Lake District mountain . |
| 8 | You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom . |
| 9 | Woosnam ( 69 ) and Mouland ( 70 ) moved to ten under par , five shots behind American stars Fred Couples and Davis Love , who suffered for six hours in the hot sunshine before posting a 15-under-par 273 . |
| 10 | If you had stood as I have done for five hours in a draughty ante-room of a courthouse sticking sixpences into one of those things to see how frequently it paid out , you would n't be so keen to chuck your money away , son . |
| 11 | Cover and marinate for 4–6 hours in the fridge , turning at least once . |
| 12 | We were separated for four hours in Peterborough once — I looked everywhere for him . |
| 13 | The section allows a licensing board to grant an occasional permission to a representative of a voluntary organisation whereby liquor may be sold during specified hours in the course of catering for a function outwith licensed premises , which function arises from the activities of the organisation ( subs . |
| 14 | Imagine being crammed for two hours in a sweltering tent under 250 kilowatts of stage lighting , along with 200 other photographers ; your eardrums assaulted by the machine-gun fire of motor-drives and curses in assorted languages , your nostrils assailed by a breath-catching blend of garlic , stale cigarettes and old shirts . |
| 15 | Factories closed for two hours in Upper Silesia . |
| 16 | On the previous night 16 bombs had exploded , damaging banks and electricity transmitters and causing power cuts for several hours in Santiago . |
| 17 | We can not work above 7½ hours in winter and about 12 in summer . " |
| 18 | Although those in the control sample in Ipswich appear more likely to be in receipt of home help than those in the action sample ( perhaps in compensation for their lack of Home Support Project help ) the mean number of home help hours received by those who were getting any was higher in the action than control sample ( 3.8 hours per week compared with 2.4 hours in the control group ) . |
| 19 | The average working week in the UK , for example , is now about 37 hours as compared with 60 hours in 1900 . |
| 20 | The average employer in Britain provides 14 hours off-the-job training each year per worker compared with 30–40 hours in Germany . |
| 21 | Drying time : most of the fabric was dry enough to wear within three hours in a warm room , but the elasticated waistband and cotton pockets took considerably longer . |
| 22 | We had driven for five hours in open lorries through a rainstorm , climbing into the foothills of the Alps and then across a wilderness of a training area , with sharp mountains and expanses of harsh , windblown moorland . |
| 23 | The current 37-hour working week ( reduced from 40 hours in 1984 ) was to be reduced to 36 hours from April 1 , 1993 , and to 35 hours from Oct. 1 , 1995 . |
| 24 | ‘ We agreed on three hours in the morning and three in the afternoon . |
| 25 | The V2000 format , which Grundig developed jointly with Philips , will record for four hours in each direction . |
| 26 | ‘ I am , unfortunately , the one who speaks for two hours in face of Mr Agnelli , ’ says Massimo Aimetti , Iveco 's vice president , finance , with a dry sense of humour . |
| 27 | Biopsy specimens were fixed in 2.5% phosphate buffered glutaraldehyde , and then fixed for one hour in 2% osmium tetroxide in the same buffer . |
| 28 | Sir John Harington relates , however , how ‘ he would walk at certain hours in one of the aisles of St Paul 's , that if any came to him for spiritual advice and comfort ( as some did though not many ) he might impart it to them ’ . |
| 29 | He celebrated his election victory with a greasy knife and fork and a snooze : fried eggs , bacon , sausage and fried bread at 8am were followed by two hours in bed . |
| 30 | Humans become unconscious after being submerged for 3 hours in water at 15°C ( 60°F ) . |