Example sentences of "be [verb] [num] hours [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of armed riot police are surrounding the Russian parliament building and pro-Communist rebels inside have been given twenty-four hours to surrender . |
| 2 | Hundreds of armed riot police are surrounding the Russian parliament building and pro-Communist rebels inside have been given twenty-four hours to surrender . |
| 3 | So you are doing six hours to make up the four . |
| 4 | And then , after two years , we were allowed on to the wards in our white coats and we had to erm find out about the patients and initially we were all very slow and we were given two hours to talk to a patient to find out all about them . |
| 5 | If you were given three hours to collect your thoughts and write it down , you 'd all d excuse me , hello , right . |
| 6 | Two days ago the Croats were given 24 hours to leave . |
| 7 | On Jan. 16 , 1990 , the Peruvian chargé d'affaires , Luis Sandiga , was given 72 hours to leave the country after making statements which " questioned the legitimacy of the democratic government " of Endara ; the Panamanian ambassador was also recalled from Peru . |
| 8 | He was given 24 hours to leave the country . |