Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coefficient of variation and root mean square of successive differences were calculated for 100 R-R intervals free of artefacts . |
| 2 | They threw a party in his honour in the old Hut by the Strathmore Arms , where the revels were halted for one minute 's silence in memory of George 's brother , Guardsman Sidney Fawcett . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the 1926 Illuminations had to be terminated prematurely because of a miners ' strike , although they were reinstated for one night on October 2 for the opening of New South Promenade by Lord Derby . |
| 4 | Firstly amoxycillin , then cefuroxim and metronidazol were given for 14 days . |
| 5 | Because of some peroperative bile leakage , a subhepatic drain was positioned and antibiotics were given for five days . |
| 6 | Prophylactic intravenous antibiotics ( 8 g mezlocillin daily ) were given for 24 hours . |
| 7 | Equal amounts of cell membrane protein from normal and carcinoma tissue were boiled for five minutes in SDS sample buffer and analysed by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis acording to Laemmli with 7% resolving gels . |
| 8 | In the academic year 1980–1 , for example , 140,000 students were registered on 1,703 taught CNAA courses and in the same year first degree courses were catering for 123,229 students , representing a rise of 6.2 per cent compared with the previous year . |
| 9 | The pooled samples were homogenised for 20 minutes in five times the faecal weight of cold water using a Stomacher 3500 ( Seward , London , UK ) . |
| 10 | Several methods of pedestrian flow and journey data collection were considered and 10 pre-Christmas shopping days of automated photographic data were gathered for one street in Nottingham city centre in a pilot study to test collection and interpretation procedures . |
| 11 | Ten patients were treated for six months ; six patients withdrew because of adverse effects . |
| 12 | Rats were treated for eight days with indomethacin ( 2 mg/ kg , twice daily ) in addition to cyclosporin A ( 5 or 10 mg/kg daily ) . |
| 13 | Sixty one patients ( 27 men and 34 women ) ( mean age : 41.8 years ; range : 17–74 years ) with irritable bowel syndrome were treated for one week with one of the following drugs : |
| 14 | To evaluate the effects of bFGF and sucralfate on ulcer healing , the animals of series A were treated for seven days and the anaesthetised with ether . |
| 15 | The animals were treated for 28 days and the minipumps were changed every seventh day . |
| 16 | The prisoners were marched for thirty-four days , whilst carrying all our belongings , not to mention the blisters , from Kaisersteinbruch to Brunau . |
| 17 | Sections were exposed for 14 days . |
| 18 | In half an hour , in eight overs , Hampshire were dismissed for 15 runs , their last scoring item being four byes . |
| 19 | Those made redundant were to wait for 26 weeks before being entitled to unemployment benefit . |
| 20 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 21 | The new buildings were designed for 250 pupils in ten classrooms grouped in a two-storey block on one side of the quadrangle : next to this , forming another side , was the Hall , named after Ephraim Hallam ; other benefactors were commemorated in the Sykes Lecture Room and the Norris Gymnasium . |
| 22 | Biotinylated anti-mouse IgG and Streptavidin were applied for three hours or 30 minutes , respectively , whereas the subclass specific goat anti-mouse IgG conjugates were applied for 12 hours . |
| 23 | Biotinylated anti-mouse IgG and Streptavidin were applied for three hours or 30 minutes , respectively , whereas the subclass specific goat anti-mouse IgG conjugates were applied for 12 hours . |
| 24 | After washing with buffer ( phosphate buffered saline , PBS , with 0.05% Tween 20 ) , serum samples ( diluted 1:10 in PBS-Tween ) were applied for 30 minutes at room temperature . |
| 25 | The Conservatives were to rule for thirteen years , with Churchill as Prime Minister for the first three and a half . |
| 26 | They were searching for ten fridges and freezers which the consumer magazine ‘ Which ’ says are the most energy-efficient models on the market . |
| 27 | Estimates of abundance of harp seals were presented for two periods : Norwegian authors provided the highest upper limit for the late 1960s , and the lower limit of the estimates from the analysis by a UK scientist was less than the catch of the 1967 year class of pups . |
| 28 | We were separated for four hours in Peterborough once — I looked everywhere for him . |
| 29 | They were looking for 4 men . |
| 30 | About the same time TWW were looking for two journalists Ron Evans , a former journalist with the Empire News and the Sunday Times , had already joined the television company and he came over to Thomson House to check me out . |