Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A biochemist colleague has kindly provided me with a bottle of hydrogen peroxide , and enough hydroquinone for 50 bombardier beetles . |
| 2 | Beyond the door lay the cargo compartment , bare , bleak , functional and obviously designed for one purpose only , the transport of missiles . |
| 3 | Add the tomatoes , tomato purée and wine , season and gently cook for 5 minutes . |
| 4 | The right to reimbursement is subject to the Limitation Act and thus lasts for six years from the date of payment . |
| 5 | Charles Martel had them out in 737 , but the island was laid waste and largely abandoned for three centuries , the Bishop and clergy fleeing and the Counts of Melgueil , of evil repute , appropriating the see and its revenues ; yet in 798 St Theodulph of Orléans reported that despite this , and pirates , there were still four chapters there . |
| 6 | Now that the hand was not naturally and exactly adapted for one specific task it became generally adaptable for just about everything and hence the agency which ultimately controlled the hand was now called on to give it the directions which automatic instinct and locomotive reflexes no longer could . |
| 7 | Lamb , dropped by Dujon on 30 , played splendidly thereafter , putting on 172 for the fourth wicket with Robin Smith , reaching his tenth Test century and fifth against West Indies , and finally falling for 132 . |
| 8 | These interviews were tape-recorded and usually lasted for eight or nine hours ( although one mammoth sitting lasted for twelve ) . |
| 9 | In the two months prior to writing this chapter , my counselling has involved one thirteen-year-old babysitter for a coven who was drugged and sexually abused for two years before eventually plucking up the courage to tell her parents . |
| 10 | With little promotional support , cask ale sales are rising and now account for 20 per cent of the total beer market . |
| 11 | They were both introduced in 1979 and now account for 30 per cent of sales in the US of Z80-type microprocessors . |
| 12 | In 1785 nine ports exceeded 10,000 tons and now accounted for 86.5 per cent . |
| 13 | Inset Alpine skiing began as a winter sport at the turn of the century and today accounts for billions in tourism revenue . |
| 14 | ‘ He got very worried and immediately sent for one of the consultants from the hospital . ’ |
| 15 | Biopsy specimens were fixed in 2.5% phosphate buffered glutaraldehyde , and then fixed for one hour in 2% osmium tetroxide in the same buffer . |
| 16 | Add 4.0 g of Basic fuchsin to 800 ml of boiling double-distilled water , and then cool for 30 min . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most famous of all , this ham is dry cured when it is rubbed with salt and then matured for 3–4 months . |
| 18 | COS 7 cells ( 2 106 ) were transfected with 1 µg DNA and 500 µg DEAE-Dextran ( Pharmacia ) in 1 ml Hanks-balanced salt solution ( Kantonsapotheke Zürich ) for 30 min , shocked in 25% DMSO solution in Hanks for 3 min and then incubated for 30 hr in fresh DME-Medium containing10% FCS . |
| 19 | Cells were then shocked with 25% DMSO in Hanks solution for 3 min and then incubated for 30 hours in fresh DME-Medium containing 10%FCS at 37°C with 5% CO 2 . |
| 20 | The bottles were gassed out with argon and then incubated for 48 hours at 37°C on an orbital shaker . |
| 21 | Bring to the boil and then simmer for 10 minutes or until slightly reduced . |
| 22 | Cells were detached from flasks by first washing three times with Ca 2 + - and Mg 2 + -free phosphate buffered saline and then incubating for three minutes at 37°C with the same phosphate buffered saline to which 0.02% ( w/v ) EDTA had been added . |
| 23 | He was staying up for four or five days at a time and then crashing for four or five days . |
| 24 | Both grass and clovers recover and grow more quickly when grazed hard for a short period and then rested for two to three weeks than they do under continuous nibbling . |
| 25 | Emily and I let the girls home early and then returned for one last look at the old building . |
| 26 | But er they would maybe lay it by for two or three weeks and then forget for two or three weeks , and then when it came to the end of the quarter they were a whole lot of weeks behind , you know , they could n't pay it then . |
| 27 | He opened in London in 1898 in The Three Musketeers , and then toured for four years , adding fifty new parts to the first thirty . |
| 28 | The British Triathlon Sprint Championship at Aylesbury was won by Steve Burton … his time to swim 750 metres … cycle 20 kilometres and then run for five kilometres was just 58 minutes and 26 seconds … |
| 29 | Ileal contents were incubated in a shaking waterbath ( 5 minutes at 37°C ) and subsequently centrifuged for 10 minutes at 15000 g ( Eppendorf 5415 ) . |
| 30 | Although many economists would argue that capital gains , as for example when ICI shares are purchased for 2 and subsequently sold for 3 , are as much income as the dividend component of the return on an asset , in practice the Inland Revenue assesses and taxes capital gains separately . |