Example sentences of "for four day " in BNC.
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| 1 | In October 1987 , when share prices crashed around the world , Hong Kong disgraced itself by closing for four days to protect local speculators . |
| 2 | IN A LITTER of sleeping bags on the floor of the Gethsemane Church in East Berlin , Irene Schwidurski , who had not taken any solid food for four days , was trying to explain her reasons to a Western journalist , with the help of a pocket dictionary . |
| 3 | ‘ She went under a desk and did n't come out for four days . |
| 4 | Although feeling hard-pressed by the prospect of Responsions ( for four days ) followed a week later by the Lincoln entrance examination , he became more confident of a future life as an Oxford student and eager to extend his male friendships and meet the challenge of competition from his equals and betters . |
| 5 | Seth 's van , which he had owned for four days , was a write-off . |
| 6 | The woman herself lay in Epsom Cottage Hospital for four days without regaining consciousness . |
| 7 | For four days the battalion suffered continuous attacks from apparently limitless numbers , during which it made a fighting withdrawal of 10 miles . |
| 8 | For four days , Looking Glass led the band lazily north , and Joseph noted : ‘ We had heard nothing of General Howard , or Gibbon , or Sturgis . |
| 9 | The second I did n't hear about for four days and even then not from a friend but from the free paper which used to be given away in the bars once a week those days . |
| 10 | My father , appreciating his employer 's position , volunteered immediately to take the General , and thus was obliged to suffer intimate proximity for four days with the man he detested . |
| 11 | There we found Capt. Warr and party , all very tired and fatigued owing to lack of food and water for four days . |
| 12 | The four patrols planned by Stirling were sent out , but only for four days . |
| 13 | And I cried solidly for four days . |
| 14 | The prisoner , a negro stevedore called Augustus Ciparis , remained locked up in his cell for four days after St Pierre had been laid waste , without food , half-dead from burns and shock , until his cries for help were heard by two negroes picking through the ruins of the town . |
| 15 | Their first real taste of life on the road came in December when they stayed over after playing London and Brighton for four days . |
| 16 | The CAB is open there for four days a week , six hours a day and is run by a paid manager and seven volunteers . |
| 17 | I read it , literally hungrily , for four days , stopping only for the daily half pint of soup and four slices of bread , and sleep . |
| 18 | We were to have the Camel Corps for four days until her father could fetch her . |
| 19 | Tickets reserved by phone will be held for four days or where applicable , until one hour before the performance . |
| 20 | Here , after flying into one village , we travelled downstream slowly for four days , sleeping on sandbanks as the river was low . |
| 21 | NEW YORK 'S Empire State Ballroom was packed for four days last week with people who knew little about computers . |
| 22 | The last really bad one was in 1978 when the electricity was off for four days . |
| 23 | This time , he was in an infirmary for four days following an operation to have an abscess removed from his nether region . |
| 24 | It rained for four days . |
| 25 | They have n't used their bows or their guns for four days . |
| 26 | Nicholas went to the King and asked leave to absent himself for four days . |
| 27 | For four days , whatever courier came to Sigouri , he would never get further . |
| 28 | For four days he seemed barely alive , but on the fifth he sat up and opened his eyes , ‘ seeing a vast procession with people singing and making all kinds of commotion ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ We stayed in a tent for four days and got very wet because it rained all the time , ’ she says . |
| 30 | Mr M by this time was away on the outer islands for four days a week . |