Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] hours " in BNC.

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1 After three hours incubation at 37°C the medium was replaced with fresh medium and reincubated for a further three hours .
2 Most cases occurred in the first 48 hours of detention ( until July 1988 Austrian law allowed detainees to be held incommunicado for 48 hours ) .
3 He did , for what seemed like the next million hours .
4 The faecal pellet was resuspended in 45 ml 80% ethanol and refluxed for a further two hours .
5 Like the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine over 50 years before , what happened in the next few hours or days has remained one of the mountain 's unfathomable secrets .
6 His chances of defending a frail total of 226 slipped away with the steady rain that fell for the last two hours .
7 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 .
8 At night , she still dreamt of the endless drugged hours she had spent jolting and rolling in the darkness of the car-boot , the hours of motion on land and sea of which she had only been dimly aware .
9 This year he put in a strenuous two hours raising over £65 towards the branch 's record Lifeboat Week total of £4,825 .
10 John 's lamp light lasted for the first few hours of his entombment and from then on he was in total darkness .
11 ( d ) She had for the previous 24 hours been receiving narcotic drugs and antibiotics and was in a state in which it was necessary to give her oxygen .
12 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 .
13 They fasted for a further 2 hours , after which they were allowed normal food and fluid intake .
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