Sentence examples for for hours was from inspiring English sources

The decision to chase the diplomats and hold them for hours was sanctioned by Augustine Chihuri, the country's powerful police commissioner, Mr. McGee said.

The lockdown on the school that had been in place for hours was lifted late on Friday and children at the school were moved to a safe location, Levy said.

The 17-year-old George Balanchine had watched her perform in Petrograd in the early 20's, and, with all the heartlessness of youth, saw her as "a drunken, fat woman who for hours was rolling around like a pig".

Mr. Schwartz's withering cross-examination of the family's upstairs neighbor, a mild woman whom prosecutors say Nixzmary's family went to for help after the girl had already been dead for hours, was necessary, he said, because "she started straying from testimony she'd given five times before in an attempt to make my client look worse".

The bridge, which can last for hours, was created by filling two beakers with deionized water, applying an electric voltage, and slowly separating them.

Michelle Quan, who took the Pierce course, said sitting in a classroom for hours was overwhelming.

"Being alone for hours is hard," says Luke Davey, 39, from his bungalow in rural Oxfordshire.

The phrase "for hours" is frequently used, as if Bewick could entirely absorb a child.

But the days of settling onto the couch uninterrupted for hours are over for the foreseeable future.

Meditating for hours is throwing myself wide open: I am part of a rush of energy far bigger than myself.

Some of the firefighters who had been at the scene for hours were exhausted and coated in ice.