Example sentences of "[prep] the first [adj] hours " in BNC.
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1 | For the first 14 hours post-operatively the foot of the bed is elevated to 45 to aid venous return . |
2 | Carrington watched the sea for the first two hours , enchanted by the Scandinavian night , then went to sleep . |
3 | Charges at long stay car parks Nun 's Close and Yorke Square , both in Richmond , rear of Leyburn Market Place , Gayle Lane , Hawes , and Muker car park in Swaledale will have a maximum waiting time of ten hours with a scale of charges running from 40p for the first two hours and thereafter 20p per hour up to a maximum of £1 per day . |
4 | We have therefore included in the cost of your holiday insurance protection : after a 12-hour delay at the start of your holiday , you have the right to cancel and get a full refund of all the money you have paid us , excluding insurance premiums — or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12- hours ' delay : for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £100 per person in total . |
5 | John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness . |
6 | I found it very difficult for the first few hours , but after watching the robots and using my skill at cheating I was able to watch somebody else to find out how to complete each screen , of which there are lots . |
7 | He 'll be , he 'll be quiet for the first few hours , he wo n't sort , say anything , then he |
8 | or , if you continue on your holiday , we will give you £20 compensation for the first 12 hours ' delay ; for each subsequent 12-hour delay we will give you a further £10 — up to a maximum of £60 per person in total . |
9 | If your travel from the UK for your outward journey or from Holland for the return journey is delayed for over 12 hours ( due to strike/industrial action , weather conditions or mechanical breakdown ) from the scheduled time , then a benefit of £20 for the first 12 hours and £10 for each subsequent 12 hours up to a maximum of £60 . |
10 | The vital signs of the patients were checked every hour for the first 12 hours , every two hours for the second 12 hours , and every four hours for the following 24 hours until they became stable , and then four times daily . |
11 | Employees are paid at normal rates for the first 40 hours and are guaranteed a minimum of 35 hours . |
12 | Given a particular post-operative patient in the recovery phase , draw up and execute a plan of nursing care for the first twenty-four hours . |
13 | The experiment with actinomycin suggests that for the first 3 hours or so LTP does not depend on gene transcription . |
14 | Well , if it 's all right with you , for the first seven hours can I just look at you ? |
15 | Mrs Beveridge cared for Leanne 's two children in her home for the first 24 hours of the siege . |
16 | Specific mortality related to the liver disease and including death by exsaguination , liver failure or both therefore affects 21 patients among whom three died during the first 72 hours . |
17 | Most gliding clubs have a system of re-checking pilots during the first few hours of solo flying , but then pilots are left very much to their own devices to improve their soaring techniques . |
18 | But by all means take a flask of tea or coffee to drink during the first few hours , but flasked drinks always taste stale after ten or twelve hours . |
19 | Taken together , these results suggest that proteins synthesized from pre-existing mRNA are required for the maintenance of LTP during the first few hours ( corresponding to LTP2 in the classification shown in Box 1 ) . |
20 | Fear had been at its pitch during the first few hours and days . |
21 | A recent study of ventricular arrhythmias following infarction has also suggested that ventricular fibrillation complicating an anterior infarct during the first 24 hours does not carry such a benign prognosis as previously thought . |
22 | During the first 24 hours in hospital , he had three sustained episodes of ventricular tachycardia , at a rate of 200 per minute , associated with circulatory collapse and syncope . |
23 | Eleven of these patients were recruited for the study during the first 24 hours of illness . |
24 | It is notable that although the police 's formal powers of interrogation during the first 48 hours are limited , their informal opportunities are not . |
25 | Lesley 's family , colleagues and friends were praying she would make it through the first critical hours . |
26 | Monitoring of his circulatory state via the central venous pressure line was not required after the first 24 hours and the line was therefore removed . |
27 | Lucy slept after the first few hours , and woke with a start from a nightmare where she was being chased and her feet were weighed down with heavy , heavy shoes . |
28 | On average you get a maximum of £60 — £100 , paid in instalments after the first 12 hours ' delay . |
29 | Although REM sleep time was reduced , its proportion of the first 5.5 hours sleep was increased in the 5.5-hour sleep condition . |
30 | They were aged 75 years and were seen and treated within the first 4 hours of the onset of symptoms . |