Sentence examples for were locked in for from inspiring English sources

But there were 30,000 protesters outside so we were locked in for several hours.

The terms of the contract were locked in for 25 years in 2012, and cannot be changed.

At one point, several thousand people watching a basketball game at the Reading High School gym were locked in for about 10 minutes while investigators searched the area, he said.

Bezos, Gates and Buffett held a combined fortune of $248.5 billion in mid-September, when numbers were locked in for the 2017 Forbes 400 list.

But if the current engine performances were locked in for the next 10 years, then people using another engine would have no chance of winning.

My days began at 6 a.m. and ended when my subjects were locked in for count at around 7 p.m.

Their first volunteer, a 51-year-old woman, had been locked in for seven months.

The entrants are locked in for commercial slots when The Walt Disney Co.'s ABC broadcasts Super Bowl XL on Feb. 5.

Those who came after that date are locked in, waiting for a decision about their asylum claims.

But taxpayers will be locked in for a while yet.

For example, the fare can only be locked in for either 72 hours or seven days.