Example sentences of "[adv prt] for [det] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | These went on for several hours , rattling doors and windows almost continuously . |
| 2 | The whole penis is then rubbed with 33% calomel ointment which is kept on for several hours . |
| 3 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 4 | It 's alright for ha put it on for half hour maybe , you know , but you forget it |
| 5 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 6 | The dog-handlers struggled on for another hour but then they , too , gave up . |
| 7 | Cook and Joan would not be down for another hour yet , so she made herself a cup of coffee on the gas stove . |
| 8 | going for a that was brilliant I got and that , and I tried , I had a whole box of er , erm , thing is , when you hold a thousand rounds of ammunition , I got given about two thirds of this box all for myself , so I 'm there for about three hours before the exercise I had and then put the rest in the then we sat down for another hour filling them up again , superb , we had loads of bung in the windows grenades |
| 9 | I 'll come in the morning instead or whatever , erm but quite often it means if they 're coming in they say , well I 'll be in town anyway I 'll come in for that hour |
| 10 | Worst hit were the Devon seaside towns of Sidmouth and Exmouth , which were cut off for several hours on Wednesday . |
| 11 | It can also spread to the neck , arm or jaw and does n't usually ease off for several hours . |
| 12 | The centre of Milton Keynes was sealed off for several hours after a coded telephone message warned of a bomb in the town 's main shopping centre . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , some 300 potato farmers dumped 3,000 tons of potatoes on roads to the north western town of Pontivy , cutting it off for several hours . |
| 14 | Concerned about the increasing number of complaints from neighbours of alarms sounding off for several hours the council has pledged to help end the menace . |
| 15 | Who said ‘ P*** off , we do n't get up for another hour . |
| 16 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 17 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |
| 18 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 19 | Leave to dry out for several hours . |
| 20 | We stayed for an hour and a half taking photographs and looking round before wading back for another hour with our ammo boxes again . |
| 21 | But go up to your room and get your bag packed for what you , ready for you 're not going straight to Leanne 's you 're coming back for half hour or so ? |
| 22 | He did n't come back for several hours , afraid of Mum 's temper but Dad said he would replace the mirror and this seemed to pacify her . |
| 23 | Before their arrival at Heathrow , their passports and tickets were confiscated ; when the British Airways plane landed , they were separated from the other passengers , put into a van and driven around for several hours before being forced back on the plane and sent out of the UK . |