Example sentences of "there for [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is advised to stay there for five days but insists on going back with the band . |
| 2 | We stayed there for five days — hoping to strike it rich , but had to be content with a car full of cuddly toys ! |
| 3 | They were there for five days and they were producing them . |
| 4 | The CAB is open there for four days a week , six hours a day and is run by a paid manager and seven volunteers . |
| 5 | I was there for four days , about four or five interviews , then I was taken to Kilburn for an identification parade . |
| 6 | The reason I would not go and live there for six days , let alone six months , was segregation . |
| 7 | The mess lay there for two days . |
| 8 | I was taken down to the block [ punishment wing ] and they left me there for two days . |
| 9 | They took both of us down the block , and we were there for two days — no blankets , no bed , nothing , just a mattress on the floor . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been up there for two days . |
| 11 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 12 | There are sites where it is not only possible to visit and see the reconstructions , but also to take part in activities simulating the way people lived on that site in the past , or even to live there for several days to get some sort of impression of the way of life . |
| 13 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 14 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 15 | They were there for seven days and local people demanded new laws and tougher police action . |
| 16 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 17 | To fix the burns you have skin stripped off your thigh , then put over all your wounds as a natural plaster and left there for ten days . |
| 18 | Then Edouard took her into his bedroom , and they remained there for three days and three nights . |
| 19 | I stayed there for three days , until the snow began to melt , dripping in stealthy drops from my little roof . |
| 20 | I doubt you 're going to be there for three days though . |
| 21 | You 're there for three days and and Sunday night . |
| 22 | Stock options are not much use as incentives if the price at which they are exercisable is dauntingly out of reach , so IBM Corp is offering a new stock option plan for mid-to-senior level executives — chairman Louis Gerstner offered the plan due to concern ‘ about keeping managers at IBM and motivated ’ : the plan is aimed at the tier of about 1,200 managers just below the most senior level , will offer new options for old ones that were exercisable at prices ranging from $89 to $169 ; the new options are exercisable at $47.88 , and managers will have to swap anywhere from 2.5 to 10 old options for one new one , depending on the original option price ; the options are exercisable after two years and the price must rise 50% above the $47.88 level to $71.82 and stay there for 30 days ; only 50% of the options can be exercised the first year , and 25% for each year after , but the terms do not look particularly attractive . |