Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] for [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prophylactic intravenous antibiotics ( 8 g mezlocillin daily ) were given for 24 hours . |
| 2 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We were separated for four hours in Peterborough once — I looked everywhere for him . |
| 6 | After being placed in quicklime to dry , they were steamed for twelve hours — a process that was repeated several times . |
| 7 | Complete urine collections were made for 5 hours ( 8 am-1 pm ) into a bottle containing 1 ml thiomersal ( 10% w/v ) as a preservative for L-rhamnose . |
| 8 | Both carriageways were closed for eight hours causing huge tailbacks . |
| 9 | LONDON was plunged into chaos last night when two of its busiest rail stations were closed for three hours by a bomb scare . |
| 10 | Collected samples were pooled for each hour . |
| 11 | Further , in rat experiments urinary exrcretions of PABA were measured for six hours after oral administration of 15 mg PABA-UDCA disulphate . |
| 12 | Telephone contacts with Vilnius were interrupted for several hours as was Lithuanian radio , broadcasting from temporary premises since the occupation of the radio and television centre in January 1991 . |
| 13 | The vials were cultured for two hours at 37°C in a shaking water bath ( Grant Instruments , Cambridge , UK ) set at 120 oscillations per minute . |
| 14 | Cells were left for 18-36 hours post-transfection to allow growth to resume , then diluted and the antibiotic phleomycin ( Cayla , France ) added , usually at a concentration of 1.0 µg ml -1 ( the ble gene confers resistance to the bleomycin family of antibiotics , with phleomycin the most effective against eukaryotic cells ( 17 ) ) . |
| 15 | Their bodies were left for several hours to serve as an example of the fate awaiting people who oppose the regime . |
| 16 | Before operation , the rats were fasted for 18 hours with free access to water and then anaesthetised with pentobarbital ( 60 mg/kg , intraperitoneally ) . |
| 17 | Adult male Wistar rats ( 180–240 g ) were fasted for 18 hours with free access to water . |
| 18 | The animals were fasted for 24 hours and then their abdomen was opened and the stomach exposed under light ether anaesthesia . |
| 19 | Male Sprague-Dawley rats weighing about 250 g were fasted for 24 hours and killed by decapitation . |
| 20 | Animals were fasted for 15 hours before the operation . |
| 21 | Inhaled β 2 agonists and drinks containing caffeine were withheld for 12 hours before each study . |
| 22 | Before the study , which was always performed in the morning , all subjects were starved for eight hours , avoided all medicines known to affect the gastrointestinal tract for at least 12 hours , and refrained from smoking for at least 24 hours . |
| 23 | All public services were suspended for four hours at the beginning of each shift . |
| 24 | A Dublin drinker As two Gulf newspapers were banned for 24 hours for advertising a Beaujolais wine festival , the United Arab Emirates used bulldozers to crush 9,000 bottles of confiscated whisky and 1,500 cans of beer into the desert sands . |
| 25 | The cells were incubated for 14 hours in a humidified atmosphere with 5% CO 2 in air at 37°C . |
| 26 | They were incubated for one hour at 4°C , with a series of PT-gliadin IgG rabbit antibodies ( 0.07 mg/ml , 0.028 mg/ml , 0.014 mg/ml ) diluted with phosphate buffered saline , pH 7.4 . |
| 27 | Plates were incubated for one hour at room temperature and then overnight at 4°C . |
| 28 | Rehydrated tissue sections were incubated for one hour at room temperature with each of the monoclonal antibodies at the following dilutions : anti-cytochrome P450 1A , 1/20 dilution in TBS of a 50% ammonium sulphate precipitate of hybridoma culture supernatant , and anti-cytochrome P450 3A as undiluted hybridoma culture supernatant . |
| 29 | 15ml reactions contained 5 ml of undiluted nuclear extract ( obtained from ∼10 6 cells ) , 5U of calf intestinal phosphatase and were incubated for 2 hours at 37°C in a buffer containing 20 mM HEPES pH8.0 , 20 mM MgCl 2 , 40 mM KCl and 0.6 mM PMSF . |
| 30 | Equivalent numbers of HT-29 cells were incubated for 48 hours with 3 mM DNJ or DMJ or left untreated . |