Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately the 1926 Illuminations had to be terminated prematurely because of a miners ' strike , although they were reinstated for one night on October 2 for the opening of New South Promenade by Lord Derby . |
| 2 | Equal amounts of cell membrane protein from normal and carcinoma tissue were boiled for five minutes in SDS sample buffer and analysed by SDS polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis acording to Laemmli with 7% resolving gels . |
| 3 | The pooled samples were homogenised for 20 minutes in five times the faecal weight of cold water using a Stomacher 3500 ( Seward , London , UK ) . |
| 4 | Several methods of pedestrian flow and journey data collection were considered and 10 pre-Christmas shopping days of automated photographic data were gathered for one street in Nottingham city centre in a pilot study to test collection and interpretation procedures . |
| 5 | Rats were treated for eight days with indomethacin ( 2 mg/ kg , twice daily ) in addition to cyclosporin A ( 5 or 10 mg/kg daily ) . |
| 6 | Sixty one patients ( 27 men and 34 women ) ( mean age : 41.8 years ; range : 17–74 years ) with irritable bowel syndrome were treated for one week with one of the following drugs : |
| 7 | Those made redundant were to wait for 26 weeks before being entitled to unemployment benefit . |
| 8 | The new buildings were designed for 250 pupils in ten classrooms grouped in a two-storey block on one side of the quadrangle : next to this , forming another side , was the Hall , named after Ephraim Hallam ; other benefactors were commemorated in the Sykes Lecture Room and the Norris Gymnasium . |
| 9 | After washing with buffer ( phosphate buffered saline , PBS , with 0.05% Tween 20 ) , serum samples ( diluted 1:10 in PBS-Tween ) were applied for 30 minutes at room temperature . |
| 10 | We were separated for four hours in Peterborough once — I looked everywhere for him . |
| 11 | The transformants selected on minimal medium were grown for 4 days on solid medium with uridine ( 100 mg/liter ) . |
| 12 | Individual faecal excretions were made for five days in conjunction with the indium-111 neutrophil studies . |
| 13 | LONDON was plunged into chaos last night when two of its busiest rail stations were closed for three hours by a bomb scare . |
| 14 | After washing twice in 0.2 M Tris hydrochloride ( pH 8.0 ) , the particles were stained for 20 s on droplets of 2% uranyl acetate . |
| 15 | Accurate data on age and sex were supplied for 1389 patients with attacks , 300 of which occurred in boys aged 0–9 and 144 in girls aged 0–9 . |
| 16 | Further , in rat experiments urinary exrcretions of PABA were measured for six hours after oral administration of 15 mg PABA-UDCA disulphate . |
| 17 | It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife . |
| 18 | The vials were cultured for two hours at 37°C in a shaking water bath ( Grant Instruments , Cambridge , UK ) set at 120 oscillations per minute . |
| 19 | Execution warrants for March 7 were issued for two prisoners on death row , despite international calls for clemency . |
| 20 | We were playing for four pound for two lines on Saturday . |
| 21 | During the American War of Independence ( 1775–82 ) British troops were besieged for three weeks in the autumn of 1779 in Savannah , Georgia , by French and American troops , but successfully repulsed the attack . |
| 22 | In ‘ Partnership ’ , again local authority-owned land was made available for private development , but the new dwellings were reserved for 12 weeks at a stipulated price for purchasers falling into a restricted set of categories of which the most important were first-time buyers on the housing waiting list and households from slum-cleared areas . |
| 23 | Before operation , the rats were fasted for 18 hours with free access to water and then anaesthetised with pentobarbital ( 60 mg/kg , intraperitoneally ) . |
| 24 | Adult male Wistar rats ( 180–240 g ) were fasted for 18 hours with free access to water . |
| 25 | Animals were fasted for 15 hours before the operation . |
| 26 | The sale 's highest prices were achieved for two paintings by Dubuffet . |
| 27 | In the first session the strongest prices were achieved for four paintings by John William Godward , of which the best was ‘ Bath of Venus ’ ( lot 54 ) at £52,000 ( $88,400 ) . |
| 28 | Two Darlington men were jailed for four months by magistrates yesterday for their part in an attempted burglary of a terraced house in the town . |
| 29 | Three organisers of an Acid House party who were jailed for three months for breaching an injunction banning an event in Warwickshire were freed in the High Court in London yesterday after apologising . |
| 30 | Aaron Hayes , Daniel Williams and John Hughes were jailed for 15 months for conspiracy to rob and possessing an imitation firearm . |