Example sentences of "be [verb] for three hours " in BNC.

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1 He 's been going for three hours .
2 Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester .
3 POLITICIANS MAY BE squabbling over who owns the bombs and ordinary Russians and Ukrainians may be queuing for three hours for a sausage , then three more for a potato , but some good news is coming out of what was once the Soviet Union .
4 Hundreds of protesters on Saturday had forced the legislative session to be suspended for three hours as they shouted down ARENA deputies and screamed for justice .
5 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 .
6 LONDON was plunged into chaos last night when two of its busiest rail stations were closed for three hours by a bomb scare .
7 The funeral was delayed for three hours after members of Katherine 's family complained that the wrong grave had been opened for the ceremony .
8 The start was delayed for three hours partly because the bowlers ' run-ups were damp and partly because vandals , protesting about the omission of Deryck Murray , the local captain , had left wet patches on the pitch — and thrown a good few bottles around as well .
9 DARLINGTON Memorial Hospital managers are still investigating claims that a 90year-old woman was forgotten for three hours while waiting for an operation .
10 The driver Robert Bain was trapped for three hours .
11 At the midpoint of the ileum , 0.020 mmol of PABA-UDCA disulphate ( 15.0 mg ) or PABA-UDCA ( 10.0 mg ) in a slightly basic ( pH 7.5 ) aqueous solution was injected into the lumen , and bile was collected for three hours .
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