Example sentences of "[vb pp] for [adj] hours in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had flown for thirty hours in the fortnight . |
| 2 | THREE 14-year-old Scouts were found yesterday after being trapped for 18 hours in torrential rain on a Lake District mountain . |
| 3 | You published last week an account of our ordeal at the hands of burglars who left us barricaded for 37 hours in a tiny bathroom . |
| 4 | If you had stood as I have done for five hours in a draughty ante-room of a courthouse sticking sixpences into one of those things to see how frequently it paid out , you would n't be so keen to chuck your money away , son . |
| 5 | We were separated for four hours in Peterborough once — I looked everywhere for him . |
| 6 | Imagine being crammed for two hours in a sweltering tent under 250 kilowatts of stage lighting , along with 200 other photographers ; your eardrums assaulted by the machine-gun fire of motor-drives and curses in assorted languages , your nostrils assailed by a breath-catching blend of garlic , stale cigarettes and old shirts . |
| 7 | Factories closed for two hours in Upper Silesia . |
| 8 | We had driven for five hours in open lorries through a rainstorm , climbing into the foothills of the Alps and then across a wilderness of a training area , with sharp mountains and expanses of harsh , windblown moorland . |
| 9 | Humans become unconscious after being submerged for 3 hours in water at 15°C ( 60°F ) . |
| 10 | A 50g sample of each food item must be kept for 72 hours in case there is an outbreak of food poisoning . |
| 11 | Briefly , the ethanolic extracts were dried under an air stream , mixed with 200 µl pyridine and acetic anhydride and kept for 18 hours in the dark , at room temperature . |
| 12 | Briefly , the ethanolic extracts were dried under an air stream , mixed with 200 µl of pyridine and acetic anhydride and kept for 18 hours in the dark , at room temperature . |
| 13 | The cells were incubated for 14 hours in a humidified atmosphere with 5% CO 2 in air at 37°C . |
| 14 | To find out whether cytokine treatment would modulate ICAM-1 expression in HT-29 and CaCo-2 cells , each of the cell lines was incubated for 24 hours in the absence or presence of IFN-γ ( 100 U/ml ) , IL-1Β ( 100 U/ml ) , or TNF-α ( 10 ng/ ml ) . |
| 15 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 16 | Mr Vogel , detained on Tuesday and held for 10 hours in a solitary cell , was arrested because the prosecutors believed he would reveal the whereabouts of Mr Schalck-Golodkowski . |
| 17 | Bradford engineer Mike de Garis , 36 , was held for 36 hours in a cell in Faro , Portugal , before police realised they had boobed . |