Example sentences of "were [vb pp] for [det] hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one station we were stopped for several hours alongside a troop train on which I discovered the Reverend R.H.L. Slater , now enrolled as an army chaplain , who told me the comforting news that my wife and three children had got away from Myitkyina a day or two earlier . |
| 2 | Collected samples were pooled for each hour . |
| 3 | Telephone contacts with Vilnius were interrupted for several hours as was Lithuanian radio , broadcasting from temporary premises since the occupation of the radio and television centre in January 1991 . |
| 4 | Their bodies were left for several hours to serve as an example of the fate awaiting people who oppose the regime . |
| 5 | The two men were held for several hours by more than 100 students who occupied the Ministry of Education in protest at the non-payments of grants and university registration procedures . |