Example sentences of "[coord] for [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some areas have day care available at weekends , or for long days so that a carer can go out to work . |
| 2 | The more energetic visitors , may be inclined to take a dip in the cooling waters of the lake itself and for this , or for leisurely days in the sun , the hotel provides a private lakeside sun terrace with sun-loungers . |
| 3 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 4 | And for two days officials from the General Council discussed with the Government the possibility of extending the subsidy . |
| 5 | Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet . |
| 6 | This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement . |
| 7 | She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother . |
| 8 | Paper has been smuggled from Croatia on horseback over the mountains which is very dodgy , and for two days Oslobodjenje was printed on blue and yellow paper as the white had run out . |
| 9 | A long quarter swell built up and for four days and nights the carrack raced along , slipping backwards down each wave as it overtook her , wallowing heavily as the next one came up astern , and making a dazzling white wake that trailed astern like a huge , ragged scar across the aquamarine ocean . |
| 10 | Mr Brannigan and Mr McBride were arrested in January 1989 and held for six days , 14 hours and 30 minutes and for four days , six hours and 25 minutes respectively . |
| 11 | Starting Monday and for six days , our panel of highly-qualified experts will take to the road in a bid to help YOU slim down and shape up . |
| 12 | But he had a fever , and for many days he lay there unconscious . |
| 13 | Its rationale shifted but its purpose in one respect at least remained , and orthodox women to this day follow through the ritual of purification at the mikva every month and abstain from physical contact with their husbands during their times of bleeding and for seven days thereafter ( = two weeks every month ) . |
| 14 | John Storey , two , was rushed to hospital critically ill with stomach and throat burns and for several days doctors fought to save his life . |
| 15 | The Germans left with their prey , and no one knew if they were going to return , but all through the night and for several days more the orphanage was looted . |
| 16 | The Roman city of Aurae Phiala remained closed to the public next day , and for several days following , an apologetic notice on the gate making known the fact to a largely indifferent general public . |
| 17 | I formed a Party , dashed to London at eleven o'clock at night , and for three days lived in all the tempest of Pleasure … |
| 18 | The ships soon lost sight of each other and for three days were tossed violently about while cannon , horses , weapons and even food were thrown overboard to lighten them . |
| 19 | Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water . |
| 20 | Again she prays and for three days and three nights she is swept through cold northern seas until she is cast ashore on the sands of Culleross on the north side of our Solway Firth . |
| 21 | So he rowed out to sea in his little boat , and for three days he neither ate nor fished , but let the tides carry him where they would . |
| 22 | So once again he rowed out to sea , and for three days neither ate nor fished . |
| 23 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 24 | M.Ps have no privilege protecting them against an arrest on criminal charges but they are protected against arrest in connection with a civil matter while parliament is in session and for 40 days before and after . |
| 25 | It was the fancy of the good Doctor to bring together , from time to time , a considerable number of men whose lives were devoted to the advancement of science , and to entertain them , not for a day merely , but for several days , so that they might discuss together , without hurry or excitement , those matters of practical and theoretical science which were at the moment engaging the attention of the scientific world . |