Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] hours [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Briefing on business matters should include basic details such as normal hours of work as well as information on the structure of the work-force , including the nationalities of which it is comprised and where , if any , skill shortages exist . |
| 4 | Our breath is moist and our sweat evaporates ; one person ‘ produces ’ a quarter of a litre of water during eight hours of sleep , and as much a litre and a half during an active day . |
| 5 | This may appear between 2–12 hours after exposure and last 3 days , with light peeling . |
| 6 | His office took up the slack , but the witnesses had to travel for 30 hours by bus to get there . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Briefly , aliquots of the dried extracts were treated with 0.03 N NaOH in methanol for 2 hours at room temperature . |
| 9 | Now 45 people had joined together for 2 hours of fun . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ However , in my opinion the body had lain for some hours after death in a supine position . ’ |
| 12 | Women had all the constraints of family life to cope with ; children at school , shopping and housekeeping , but no sympathy was expressed by male members of the group as to the comparative hardness of the women 's lives in terms of demands on them , such as few hours of sleep . |
| 13 | Lucy Jackson pioneered our answer after painstaking hours of study , blood , sweat and tears and disillusion — a FASTER FITNESS programme based on the ‘ follow me ’ principle , but maintaining the underlying basics of Medau movement , including a slower rate of floor work to balance the more active elements . |
| 14 | Judge John Helman dismissed the jury after the foreman reported that , after eight hours of deliberation , there was no prospect of an agreed verdict . |
| 15 | I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner . |
| 16 | I have also noticed that some makes of PP3s have a tendency to swell after some hours of use . |
| 17 | The secretory studies usually started after six to eight days of recovery from the surgery usually after 12 hours of food but not water deprivation . |
| 18 | After six hours of incubation , HT-29 cells showed maximal adhesion to type IV collagen . |
| 19 | CONDEMNATION OF INQUIRY INTO DRUGS DEATHS / WHICH ENDS AFTER SIX HOURS OF EVIDENCE / WITH SHERIFF MAKING NO RECOMMENDATION |
| 20 | At noon however , after 10 hours of fighting , a message was broadcast declaring that the coup had been foiled . |
| 21 | After three hours of negotiation the police allowed the demonstrators to place a coffin , representing the death of dictatorship , outside the headquarters of the New China News Agency ( Xinhua ) . |
| 22 | He went along to Diana 's breathing classes to prepare for the birth and was there by her side in the private Lindo Wing at St Mary 's Hospital in Paddington when William emerged after sixteen hours of labour . |
| 23 | After many hours of travelling they passed a sign that read ‘ WE 'LL SOON BE AT PRAIL ’ . |
| 24 | After 58 hours in Committee , only nine clauses of the Water Bill had been considered . |
| 25 | In any case , few men or women had sufficient time or energy after long hours of farm labouring or housework to devote to a garden or allotment . |
| 26 | To determine the effect of adding silicone on further enzyme reactions , 4 µg of plasmid DNA extracted with or without grease was digested with Eco RI and Pst I together ; after 3 hours of digestion at 37°C , DNA sampales were run on 1% agarose gel in TBE ( Tris-boric acid-EDTA ) buffer ( Figure 1E ) . |
| 27 | Staining was optimal after 18–24 hours of fixation , but less intense after more than 48 hours of fixation . |
| 28 | All the location filming was completed in May 1969 after 4,000 hours of flight time . |
| 29 | Now , after 16 hours of play and endless training sessions , the final 80 minutes tomorrow will determine whether they remain in Division I of the McEwan 's National League . |
| 30 | LIVERPOOL soccer manager Graeme Souness was last night recovering in an intensive care unit after five hours of heart surgery . |