Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [verb] for [num] hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Bucharest she sat for 48 hours in her hotel , waiting for word from her Romanian solicitor . |
| 2 | They had had other help in the house too ; Mrs Eddy from the village who came for three hours every morning , and her daughter Jess who waited at table for dinner parties and helped with the clearing up after . |
| 3 | He likes to get other people — usually me , of course — to do the dirty work : make the awkward telephone call , tell the gardener who comes for four hours a week that he has ruined the asparagus bed , speak to Tom 's teacher about his appalling arithmetic . |
| 4 | This stopped the hiccups and calmed him down , and that night he slept for sixteen hours . |
| 5 | Mums who struggle for 12 hours or more to give birth look with envy on those lucky women who have short labours of two to three hours . |
| 6 | This afternoon it poured for two hours solid . |
| 7 | THE MINEMA IN KNIGHTSBRIDGE makes a welcome reopening with La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , the shorter version of Jacques Rivette 's splendid La Belle Noiseuse which runs for four hours and which we were shown the other day . |
| 8 | From the resumption of collective bargaining in 1976 until 1986 , there were over 30 national strikes , but almost without exception they lasted for 24 hours or less , often for only 4 hours . |
| 9 | The blast damaged houses and a caused a fire which lasted for four hours . |
| 10 | Fifteen lives were lost in the accident and the ensuing fire which raged for twelve hours . |