Example sentences of "had been [verb] for [adj] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 2 | After either Nicocheck or Nicotine Patch had been worn for 24 hours plasma nicotine ( 0.2 µg/l ) and cotinine ( 0.2 µg/l ) concentrations were unchanged , indicating no absorption . |
| 3 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 4 | They had been flying for 16 hours 12 minutes , had survived two bad storms and had flown over 1,800 miles of ocean . |
| 5 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 6 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 7 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 8 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 9 | A SEARCH is under way for the two-man crew of a light aircraft after wreckage of the single-engined Grob , which had been missing for 24 hours , was found beside Loch Muick , near Ballater , Grampian . |
| 10 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 11 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 12 | The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues . |
| 13 | On March 11 anti-terrorist forces stormed a house in Istanbul where three hostages had been held for 17 hours by members of the underground Turkish Revolutionary Party ; a police officer and a hostage were killed . |