Sentence examples for blocks were evacuated for from inspiring English sources

The surrounding blocks were evacuated for six days and the crisis became a riveting symbol of the city's wounded infrastructure.

After the previous crane was damaged in the storm, the surrounding blocks were evacuated for six days as workers struggled to secure the crane and its boom before ultimately dismantling it.

Christchurch airport, shopping centres and office blocks were evacuated as the quakes hit.

Then, they were evacuated for 60 min, saturated with brine.

Dry shale samples were evacuated for nearly 24 h at 99.99 % vacuum, and saturated by allowing non-traced fluid to invade the evacuated sample.

Exetainer vials were placed on a 20-tube manifold and were evacuated for 1 min.

After exposure, samples were evacuated for 1 h to remove excess nonchemisorbed adsorbate (20) at 10 2 Torr.

Six of them have been evacuated for hypothermia.

They returned to their homes, were evacuated again, and on 3rd April 1996 Plymouth was evacuated for the last time.

The annex was evacuated for 45 minutes.

The school was evacuated for about an hour.