Example sentences of "was [vb pp] for [adj] minute " in BNC.
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| 1 | One portion of the homogenates was boiled for 10 minutes , centrifuged at 5000 g for 10 minutes and the supernatant stored at -20°C for the later determination of histamine . |
| 2 | The autoradiogram was exposed for 60 minutes at minus 80°C . |
| 3 | Mr Souness was treated for 30 minutes and then transferred to a high-dependency , progressive care unit at Alexandra Hospital in Cheadle , near Manchester . |
| 4 | Each dose was given for 30 minutes . |
| 5 | The display was delayed for five minutes to allow the queues of cars to park . |
| 6 | ‘ The train was delayed for 224 minutes and left just after 9am eventually . ’ |
| 7 | Heavy going at Wigan The start was delayed for 25 minutes to enable the now inevitable lakecomers to find a vacant place . |
| 8 | Our meeting was delayed for ten minutes . |
| 9 | The stomach was aspirated for 10 minutes before the start of the study . |
| 10 | The bell was rung for five minutes before both morning and afternoon school . |
| 11 | One soldier was trapped for 20 minutes because the impact of the crash forced the lorry door on to his body . |
| 12 | During each of the stages described above , 15 ml of effluent from the venous catheter was collected for five minutes after the start of infusion . |
| 13 | Basal gastric secretion was collected for 60 minutes , and bFGF was infused subcutaneously ( at a rate of 4ml/hour ) in various doses ranging from 1 to 100 µg/kg/hour with a peristaltic pump ; each dose was infused for 60 minutes in one day 's test . |
| 14 | The mixture was stirred for one minute in a tube mixer and then centrifugated at 3000× g for 10 minutes . |
| 15 | Basal gastric secretion was collected for 60 minutes , and bFGF was infused subcutaneously ( at a rate of 4ml/hour ) in various doses ranging from 1 to 100 µg/kg/hour with a peristaltic pump ; each dose was infused for 60 minutes in one day 's test . |
| 16 | Muscle strips were precontracted by 10 µM acetylcholine and the mean amplitude of steady state contractions was measured for two minutes before and after the addition of leucocytes . |
| 17 | The tissue suspension was mixed with the incubation mixture ( 0.1 M NaCl , 0.05 M phosphate , 0.04 mM luminol , pH 7.6 ) , transferred to 12 mm×75 mm test tubes ( total volume=2 ml ) , and placed in the chemiluminescence spectrophotometer where light production was measured for 1 minute . |
| 18 | Sham fed acid output was measured for 60 minutes ( 30 minutes during and 30 minutes after feeding ) . |
| 19 | Social historians might want to know that the average phone in the US was used for twenty minutes a day in 1992 , whereas the average phone in the UK was used for only four minutes . |
| 20 | In tests with intragastric administration of bFGF , the peptide was dissolved in 1 ml of saline and instilled into the stomach via the cannula of the gastric fistula and the fistula was closed for 30 minutes . |
| 21 | The dressing room was locked for 40 minutes . |
| 22 | Perhaps the best indication is that the initial flight , which was scheduled for 20 minutes , lasted well over an hour . |
| 23 | She was driven for 20 minutes to the Eastern docks , Dover . |
| 24 | Each sample was counted for 5 minutes at appropriate channel settings giving a minimum detectable 5 1 Cr activity of less than 0.01% of the administered dose per litre of urine . |
| 25 | The bFGF bound to sucralfate was harvested and the radioactivity was counted for 1 minute in a γ scintillation counter ( LKB Wallace , Wien , Austria ) . |
| 26 | Arthurton 's innings was interrupted for 30 minutes after lunch on 117 when a tropical summer storm rained hailstones as big as cricket balls on the pitch . |
| 27 | Sir Bryan was gone for two minutes . |
| 28 | The membrane was blocked for 30 minutes at 20°C in PBS containing 5% non-fat dried milk powder . |
| 29 | The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church . |
| 30 | The hearing was adjourned for 15 minutes after a relative of 16-year-old Suzanne Capper tried to burst into court screaming abuse . |