Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] [adj] hours " in BNC.

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1 Eventually , the slurry not only reached the bottom of the main shaft , over the following 24 hours it rose 16 feet up it .
2 But over the following 24 hours it gradually emerged that late on Thursday night she had undergone an hour-long operation under general anaesthetic for a throat obstruction , which was later disclosed to be a piece of fish .
3 The patients with active ulcerative colitis ( n=6 ) had a significantly increased uptake of PEGs in the molecular weight range 458–810 , measured as urinary excretion over the first 6 hours after instillation .
4 Urine was collected over the first 6 hours after PEG deposition .
5 An essential part of all eel tanks is sliding glass covers , so these were duly closed and the eels left to themselves for the night while I hoped that they were strong enough to survive the constant stress that they had endured over the past thirty-six hours .
6 President Bush and Gen Powell insisted that the 12,000 extra troops deployed in Panama over the past 48 hours would be withdrawn ‘ as soon as possible ’ .
7 All the same it was n't easy to stop herself from wondering if he too was having difficulties in not remembering what had happened over the last forty-eight hours .
8 He says ; Over the last 48 hours we have found ourselves drawing closer together as a group .
9 Still panting , she struggled to maintain a vestige of self-respect as the press demanded a full briefing of her domestic itinerary over the last 24 hours .
10 Over the last 24 hours , we 've had one inch of rain .
11 Simon Griffiths , a hospital spokesman , said last night : ‘ Mrs Barnett 's general condition has improved over the last few hours and her liver is functioning well . ’
12 When a sergeant congratulated one section on the improvement in the language in the guard room over the last few hours when the field-worker had been present , one constable shouted , ‘ Fucking good job too , Sir ’ ( FN 2/2/87 , p. 6 ) , and the occupational culture of the station soon reasserted its typical forms of expression , which are widespread in all police forces and occupational cultures that are predominantly masculine and working class .
13 He thought back over the last few hours , the acknowledged relief of talking to Alice , the knowledge that nothing shocked her , nothing surprised her , that everything he did , if not right in her eyes , was judged by a different standard from the one she rigorously applied to the rest of her life .
14 Her emotions seemed to have undergone a deep sea-change over the last few hours .
15 But somehow over the last twenty-four hours she 'd allowed herself to hope that it was n't true .
16 Instead of a simple wind diagram , he had ‘ back-projections ’ of the actual path of the rain-bearing wind over the previous 48 hours .
17 Iraqi government sources claimed on July 16 that 1,200 Arab citizens had been deported from Kuwait over the previous 24 hours [ see pp. 38118 ; 38166 ; 38309 ] .
18 Immediately after his infamous singlet and shorts press conference , French and Fordham woke Wallaby manager John Breen , coach Bob Dwyer and captain Nick Farr-Jones to a meeting to inform them of the happenings over the previous 12 hours .
19 Over the next six hours , heat built up until eventually the reaction ran out of control .
20 She remained feverish over the next 14 hours with cold peripheries and an arterial blood pressure of 90/50 mm Hg .
21 The grand opening parade gives a foretaste of the spectacle that 's to come … and over the next two hours , there 's one breathtaking moment after another :
22 Thirty minutes after ingestion of the test solution the patient was encouraged to drink and was instructed to collect urine over the next 5 hours .
23 Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal .
24 Arnica 0/1 every four hours relieved the swelling and pain steadily over the next 36 hours .
25 The heat was on and , over the next 24 hours , posters proliferated alarmingly .
26 With the humidity likely to lessen over the next 24 hours , Bristol 's all-sand circuit should be in perfect nick for front-running Lady Riptide .
27 Over the next 24 hours he developed grade 3 encephalopathy , and high flux dialysis was started .
28 After the end of the study the volunteers were asked to drink 1.5–2 l of an oral rehydration solution over the next 24 hours , but most of the subjects preferred other liquids .
29 Nasogastric tube feeding was started but symptoms persisted over the next 24 hours .
30 He was started on intravenous amiodarone at a rate of 300 mg over the first hour followed by 900 mg over the next 24 hours .
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