Example sentences of "[coord] for [art] [num ord] [adj] hour " in BNC.
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1 | It was a good seven-hour jeep-lurch , even with Abu at the wheel , and for the last two hours we drove over a tyre-tearing track down a parched spit of land . |
2 | Twenty five variables ( 12 qualitative and 13 quantitative ) related to clinical or biological data , endoscopic features or to the importance of the haemorrhage were collected at admission and for the next 72 hours for transfusions . |
3 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
4 | I was conscious soon after , and for the next few hours was in a state of half-sleeping , half-waking , yet aware of the presence of a pretty young nurse , perhaps Thai or Korean , who alternated between giving me sips of water and jabbing a needle in my bum . |
5 | It worked and for the next half hour she was able to quiz the woman whom she saw as having stolen her happiness on every aspect of her life . |
6 | But for the next twenty-four hours you 've got to come out of sight . ’ |