Example sentences of "for [art] next [adj] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was heavily pregnant but she was questioned and made to wait for the next twelve hours without food or water . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got to lie here for the next twelve hours without moving with an ice-pack over half my face because you walked out and left me to the mercy of a predatory pit-popsy ! ’ |
| 3 | My name is Howard DeVore and I 'm to be your host for the next eight hours . ’ |
| 4 | This done , for the next five hours Spencer followed the Islander 's tail lights . |
| 5 | Now here I was , with the rest of the Kent Display Team , rumbling along in a coach , for the next five hours , on my way to Norwich . |
| 6 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 7 | Twenty five variables ( 12 qualitative and 13 quantitative ) related to clinical or biological data , endoscopic features or to the importance of the haemorrhage were collected at admission and for the next 72 hours for transfusions . |
| 8 | For the next six hours this continued , Jack needed all his strength to move the flying controls heavy with snow , bombarded by hail and snow causing the radiator shutters to jam , hiding the petrol gauge and choking up the pilot tube . |
| 9 | For the next six hours — or a little less , because at Battersea the flood lasts five and a half hours , and the ebb six and a half — they would be living not on land , but on water . |
| 10 | At 3pm , he will meet Clinton and the two will be together for the next six hours , an indication that the president regards the Prime Minister 's visit as more than just a courtesy call . |
| 11 | The two Officers shook hands , then they both went into the caravan after informing me that they would be attending a meeting for the next two hours . |
| 12 | Our connection for the prison camp did not leave until 11 o'clock and the Feldwebel was wondering what to do for the next two hours when the air raid siren blew . |
| 13 | So , for the next two hours , they sat on the terrace , and Edouard talked . |
| 14 | For the next two hours we flew from tree to tree , grabbing onto creepers to break the fall to the next ancient branch , to land in a pile of ferns and fall on again faster . |
| 15 | They left her in there , wedged among the wooden boxes and brooms , and bric-a-brac , barely able to move one way or the other , for the next two hours , while they stripped Patsy naked , covered him all over with shoe polish , and locked him out the front of the house for a while to see what it was like being a naked little ‘ nigger boy ’ in Westfield Drive . |
| 16 | Sitting on the next barstool was an antiques dealer called James ; he discussed his feelings with Clare for the next two hours and then took her to dinner at the Ox on the Roof , where she chose the most filling dishes . |
| 17 | And so , for the next two hours , Grace and her parents watched the wreck of the Forfarshire through the telescope . |
| 18 | For the next two hours the literary lunchers surged around Hannah and virtually ignored the ostensible star of the show , who had been obliged to immediately follow Hannah and had fallen flat . |
| 19 | For the next two hours she was absorbed in the film , which turned out to be as good as she had hoped . |
| 20 | The northbound carriageway between junctions nine and ten is still blocked and we 're told it 's likely to remain blocked for the next two hours . |
| 21 | For the next two hours they carried out what the sergeant-major described as ‘ drill ’ . |
| 22 | Back on parade , you lot , ’ shouted Sergeant-Major Philpott , and neither man had the breath to speak another word for the next two hours as they were marched up and down , up and down , until Charlie felt that when they eventually stopped his feet must surely fall off . |
| 23 | She never bought more , nor less , than she would need for her housekeeping for the next 24 hours . |
| 24 | Patients were instructed to take no alcohol and to collect all urine for the next 24 hours . |
| 25 | The perpetrators of the coup would be imprisoned by the storm for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 26 | It was not a risk he was likely to take , even if it meant him staying at his desk for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 27 | I stayed in bed for the next twenty-four hours , sleeping , drinking a little water , not eating at all , and only rousing myself when Gav arrived back ( from his parents ' , I wrongly assumed ) , loudly declaring himself to be of unsound liver but totally in love . |
| 28 | But for the next twenty-four hours you 've got to come out of sight . ’ |
| 29 | And — yes — I got through my ‘ appreciation ’ of Philip without crying once , and with recourse to only one swig from the Rescue Remedy , with nothing more than red , puffy eyes , a bursting heart and a thumping head for the next twenty-four hours . |
| 30 | For the next few hours , I was back on the road , passing flatbed trucks carrying huge , tapering logs like giant carrots with their tips chopped off . |