Example sentences of "for many hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | for many hours on day one the river seemed amazingly narrow , one bank of it always being on the front end of my canoe . |
| 2 | Fish caught in gill-nets are generally regarded as being of poorer quality , because they are often dead for many hours before coming aboard the fishing vessel . |
| 3 | Neural cells can be kept in good condition in vivo for many hours , and provide a good chemical test system and model for memory . |
| 4 | Shorter and his lieutenants were wary of a trap and had watched the forest lodge near Caesar 's Camp for several hours before finally making their rendezvous with Baptist Nunn but , as they entered the building , they were surrounded by a dozen officers who had been lying doggo nearby for many hours . |
| 5 | Back at the hotel we hear the drums begin again and continue long into the night , past the time when exhaustion overcomes the excitement which keeps us from sleep for many hours . |
| 6 | An almost universal feature of determination is that it involves subtle chemical changes , almost certainly turning on or off genes , and the overt result may not be seen for many hours . |
| 7 | This living nightmare lasted for many hours until a sickly daylight showed again and the sun could be seen once more through the haze of dust . |
| 8 | The conflagration raged for many hours throughout the town , spreading rapidly through buildings already torn open by the blast , and with not a single person left alive to check it . |
| 9 | Uncomfortable feelings absorbed from those who seek our help ( and that includes simply offering a sympathetic ear ) , can linger for many hours or even days — unless we learn how to dissipate such feelings . |
| 10 | I have watched a shoal of bream in shallow water for many hours . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon . |
| 13 | On Fridays and other fast-days he would lock himself up in the church for many hours . |
| 14 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 15 | Activity-dependent synaptic potentiation occurs within milliseconds and can persist for many hours in the anaesthetised animal or in the in vitro hippocampal slice preparation , and for days when induced in the freely moving animal . |
| 16 | Expression without RP3 continues for many hours ( shown here 16h AEL ) but declines before the end of embryogenesis . |
| 17 | But to be able to hunt successfully , males have to remain close together — sometimes , when hunting success is low , for many hours and over several kilometres , and so unusual tolerance of each other is called for . |
| 18 | They did not often fish for them deliberately , for a coelacanth fights hard when it is hooked and a man might have to struggle with one of them for many hours before it could be hauled on board his canoe . |
| 19 | The great metabolic activity of insects during flight is indicated by their greatly increased oxygen consumption under these conditions ( e.g. Davis and Fraenkel , 1940 ) and as flight continues uninterruptedly for many hours in some species , a reserve of oxidizable material is required ( Sacktor , 5970 ) . |
| 20 | We talk for many hours . |
| 21 | She wrote very fast , for many hours , and never put her pen down once . |
| 22 | I left them there for many hours , and when they were cold again , I found that they were hard and strong . |
| 23 | I lay there for many hours , but at last I fell asleep , and in my small , helpless boat , dreamed of home and the Admiral Benbow . |
| 24 | He sat for many hours in front of a mirror , moving his joints , detecting stiffness in a knee , juggling with cakes of soap to see if he could still do it . |
| 25 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 26 | As it takes some time to get the system going and prepare the animal for recording , any one experiment can run for many hours , and as a result neurophysiologists tend , even more than any other lab scientists I know , to be erratic nightworkers and ( at least when they are graduate students ) not well cut out for normal social relations . |
| 27 | Next in was Ocean Quest on 11 December , with a time of 16 days , 10 hr , 9 min and 22 sec , but they also motored for many hours . |
| 28 | RNAS non-rigid airships , able to stay aloft for many hours and send down reports by wireless , did important work on patrol and convoy escort , many times directing British destroyers into contact with the enemy 's U-boats . |
| 29 | That night the Prime Minister and the King spoke for many hours . |
| 30 | The shining Gaggia dispensed one-and-a-half inches of bitter froth into an earthenware cup , and for two shillings lovers could sit for many hours in the dark brown shadows , with a bowl of brown sugar between them . |