Example sentences of "for two hours " in BNC.
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| 1 | I work out with weights for two hours on Saturdays . |
| 2 | About 1,000 BP employees in Glasgow evacuated their offices for two hours yesterday after a pipe in the chilling plant of an air conditioning system broke loose , releasing gas into the building . |
| 3 | PARAMILITARY police fired shots and sealed off Panama 's opposition headquarters yesterday , locking former presidential candidate Guillermo Endara inside for two hours after opposition leaders held a press conference to deny involvement in prior knowledge of Tuesday 's failed coup attempt . |
| 4 | Conducting a graduate seminar on the unpromising topic of textual variants he would hold the room spellbound for two hours by his unforced erudition . |
| 5 | The session was suspended in disarray for two hours . |
| 6 | The resulting fracas led to the suspension of proceedings for two hours on Wednesday and further rancorous debate yesterday . |
| 7 | Patshull Park Lake was ice free on Saturday but completely frozen on Sunday so two motor boats were used to break up the half inch thick ice for two hours . |
| 8 | Film-making involves acting for 10 minutes and then waiting around for two hours . |
| 9 | They will fly at low level for two hours , with many men suffering the effects of air sickness and dehydration . |
| 10 | This delayed the Whole patrol for two hours whilst the unfortunate driver was flown to the Field Hospital in a Gazelle helicopter which was called out to the scene , and a REME team drove out to repair the Land-Rover . |
| 11 | Another two or three men touched my body all over with about 11 burning cigarettes , continuously for two hours . |
| 12 | The trouble with Quassia ( Letters , November 7 ) is that the extract is unstable , so you need to boil the dry chips for two hours and strain off the liquid each time you need to use it . |
| 13 | Six months after the Guardian article appeared , two and a half years after she was waved out of their hospital , South Manchester health authority finally agreed to supply a psychologist for two hours a week . |
| 14 | IN AN alley-way outside a small London print works last week , a new employee was stripped by his workmates , tied to a chair , daubed with ink , flour and discarded food , and left out in the cold for two hours . |
| 15 | Richards took the new ball — which did not shoot — and Ellison and Thomas played quite contentedly for two hours , putting on 72 for the last wicket , a new England record in the West Indies , taking the total to 315 . |
| 16 | She put in an offer to the oily estate agent and just caught a train to London , which was lucky , for there was not another for two hours . |
| 17 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 18 | Imagine being crammed for two hours in a sweltering tent under 250 kilowatts of stage lighting , along with 200 other photographers ; your eardrums assaulted by the machine-gun fire of motor-drives and curses in assorted languages , your nostrils assailed by a breath-catching blend of garlic , stale cigarettes and old shirts . |
| 19 | Every morning and afternoon , a patient aide — who has had some nursing training — visits for two hours and helps her bathe , carry out exercises and walk . |
| 20 | For Mr Desai , and many thousands of Indian yogis who rise at 4am and sit cross-legged for two hours , meditating on profound spiritual questions , a glass of melatonin-rich urine does seem to be the ideal thirst-quencher . |
| 21 | The best-kept literary secret of Manhattan is the chap ( ’ Call me Ed ’ ) who pops up on the West Side , on the pavement opposite the Beacon Theatre , for two hours every Saturday and Sunday afternoon . |
| 22 | She came into my mind when a woman in the slums of West Kingston , Jamaica , with a child at her breast and another three hanging around her skirts followed me around for two hours repeating , ‘ Some milk would be better than nothing . ’ |
| 23 | We waited for two hours , but nobody came . |
| 24 | The professional 's charges in 1908 were 2s. 6d. ( 18 holes ) , 1s. 6d. ( nine holes ) and 2s. 0d. for a one-hour lesson , 3s. 0d. for two hours . |
| 25 | Arnica 200 afforded temporary relief for two hours ; a repeat dose helped temporarily . |
| 26 | After dinner the etiquette was very stiff , and we stood for two hours . |
| 27 | As Robyn Penrose is winding up her lecture , and Vic Wilcox is commencing his tour of the machine shop , Philip Swallow returns from a rather tiresome meeting of the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Studies Committee ( which wrangled for two hours about the proposed revision of a clause in the PhD regulations and then voted to leave it unchanged , an expenditure of time that seemed all the more vain since there are scarcely any new candidates for the PhD in arts subjects anyway these days ) to find a rather disturbing message from the Vice-Chancellor 's office . |
| 28 | Dennis Hopper went to the meeting with Manson and sat face to face with him for two hours in a room on the eighth floor of the Hall of Justice . |
| 29 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 30 | But the most exciting sea-trout fishing is to be found further afield , in distant sea-pools around the coastline ; and one morning , leaving the ladies by a roadside lochan , Blair and I walked south from the A867 to Oban Sponish sea-pools , on the north shore of Loch Eport ; a hard , circuitous hike , tramping for two hours over wet moorlands round Scadavay 's ragged shores . |