Example sentences of "[adv] slept [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She was very overactive and had not slept for three nights .
2 Look at this kid : eighteen years old , three in the morning , has n't slept for two nights .
3 I have n't slept for two years
4 Or : ‘ Jane Ryle says she has n't slept for three nights . ’
5 One is secret and compartmented , and another is sort of boyish and boastful , and it would be in character for him to say , I wo n't be here tomorrow , I will be down south , and then for him to say , Yes , it was a quick trip and I flew all night and I came back and I have n't slept for 48 hours , always complaining about how busy he was and how terribly overworked .
6 ‘ Noriega looked like a man who had n't slept for 20 days , ’ said Mr Larry Birns of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs .
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