Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] for [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly amoxycillin , then cefuroxim and metronidazol were given for 14 days . |
| 2 | Because of some peroperative bile leakage , a subhepatic drain was positioned and antibiotics were given for five days . |
| 3 | Rats were treated for eight days with indomethacin ( 2 mg/ kg , twice daily ) in addition to cyclosporin A ( 5 or 10 mg/kg daily ) . |
| 4 | To evaluate the effects of bFGF and sucralfate on ulcer healing , the animals of series A were treated for seven days and the anaesthetised with ether . |
| 5 | The animals were treated for 28 days and the minipumps were changed every seventh day . |
| 6 | The prisoners were marched for thirty-four days , whilst carrying all our belongings , not to mention the blisters , from Kaisersteinbruch to Brunau . |
| 7 | Sections were exposed for 14 days . |
| 8 | The transformants selected on minimal medium were grown for 4 days on solid medium with uridine ( 100 mg/liter ) . |
| 9 | Individual faecal excretions were made for five days in conjunction with the indium-111 neutrophil studies . |
| 10 | Indeed these two characteristics are all that is needed in the case of the adjective ; the relative clause is in a sense a stalking horse , convenient in that it is more tangible than the relation around which it is built , but unnecessary , and awkward in that it brings with it , in English , the requirement that it must express a tense ; for while it is often possible to read a tense into an adjective there is no reason whatever to suppose that there is always some particular tense present to the mind of the speaker but suppressed , as can be seen from instances like ( 35 ) , where more than one tense could plausibly be grafted onto the sense expressed by the phrase underlined , or , just as well , some adverbial notion like " because " or " if " without any specific tense being implied : ( 35 ) motorists guilty will have to pay heavy fines Likewise , the buildings adjacent of example ( 17 ) simply take their tense from that of the clause as a whole ; if , for instance , we were to switch the tense of the verb in that example in order to shift the whole situation to past time : ( 36 ) the buildings adjacent were closed for three days it would be quite unnecessary to presume that an independent mental re-assignment of tense , from present to past , internal to the phrase buildings adjacent , has to take place as well . |
| 11 | Drugs or vehicles were administered for eight days . |
| 12 | TOP Northern jockey Kevin Darley and apprentice Jason Weaver incurred the wrath of the stewards at Newcastle yesterday and both were suspended for 10 days ( November 11-20 inclusive ) after being found guilty of causing ‘ intentional interference ’ . |
| 13 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
| 14 | The continued need for economy was reflected by their rejection of the chaplain 's request for three dozen copies of the hymns for the Coronation Service , and the carpenter , the bricklayer and the engineer were granted two days ' extra holiday ( but were paid for one day only ) . |
| 15 | This diet was consumed for six days . |
| 16 | The first session was arranged for 4 days later . |
| 17 | The first attempt on the buttress was delayed for two days because of bad weather , and it took a total of five days to climb the feature , which included a band of loose rock at the base , and reconnoitre the south ridge to the start of a large rock pillar at about 5,900 metres . |
| 18 | Faeces was collected for 5 days and the faecal 5 1 Cr activity was correlated with that of the blood standards from the previous day ( which enables the calculation of blood loss into the intestine ) . |
| 19 | Sheila alleged that she was dazed for three days following the attack , suffering a black eye and a cut on her forehead . |
| 20 | In the latter instance a whole timetable was freed for two days , this being in itself an innovation , and two classes , 6 and 7 , combined to work in groups with their teachers and a local inspector . |
| 21 | It was silenced for eight days . |
| 22 | I was kidnapped for ten days . |
| 23 | A small bag of zeolite was used for three days , every two weeks to keep ammonia in check . |
| 24 | The airport was closed for six days last week when fire crews refused to cross picket lines by baggage handlers protesting against having the new system imposed on them . |
| 25 | NEW YORK 'S Empire State Ballroom was packed for four days last week with people who knew little about computers . |
| 26 | Following a dramatic rise in the US dollar exchange rate on the black market , from 6,000 intis at the end of October to 11,200 on Nov. 21 ( and to 14,000 intis by May 1990 ) , transit through the Tacna border with Chile and border points with Ecuador and Bolivia was restricted for 15 days as from Nov. 21 to crack down on smuggling and illegal trading in US dollars , particularly in the Chilean free zone of Iquique . |
| 27 | At childrens ' hall , which was picketed for two days , picketed for two days , by this now happy band of Labour people in |
| 28 | Last year the company lost £30,000 worth of fish bound for the Spanish market when the consignment was blocked for three days outside Toulouse by French lorry drivers protesting about restrictions on the hours they could drive . |
| 29 | So let's sum up , I treated a similar case with 5 times the amount of fluid than the article used , the case was solid the next day and was viewed for 3 days and had no greying off and the colour was really good . |
| 30 | The country 's most prominent dissident , Elizardo Sanchez , leader of the Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission , was detained for two days but released on Oct. 13 . |