Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] for [num] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN 82-year-old man who drove off to visit friends got lost for 13 hours — and finished up just 22 miles from home . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ On one day , the water ran dirty for eight hours it was impossible to drink , you could n't make tea and washing was filthy . |
| 3 | The nuclei on the slides were stained with 1 µg/ml of 4',6-diamidino-2-phenylindole dihydrochloride ( DAPI ) ( Sigma , USA ) in 0.2 M TRIS chloride buffered saline for one hour at room temperature in the dark . |
| 4 | The aircraft remained undiscovered for 15 hours . |
| 5 | Some results from the study upon army volunteers who stayed awake for 72 hours in constant conditions and ate regular meals were considered earlier ( Chapter 2 , fig. 2.1 ) . |
| 6 | On one occasion she sat alone for six hours travelling up to Carlisle . |