Example sentences of "[be] [adv] for [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 2 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 3 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 4 | People living next to the site of a New Age festival planned for the weekend say they 're in for two days of misery . |
| 5 | We 're here for two days and I 'm going to present to what to some of you will be some new ideas some new concepts that you 've perhaps never come across before . |
| 6 | You 're there for three days and and Sunday night . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 9 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 10 | In the morning I explained to Diana and Mary that I had to go on a journey , and would be away for several days . |
| 11 | The English boy used to work in the hospital for a day at a time , and then be off for several days . |
| 12 | The Welsh centre will be out for 10 days after bruising ankle ligaments , and his injury means the Lions have only one fit centre Jeremy Guscott after the injuries last weekend to Scott Hastings , who is returning home , and Will Carling . |
| 13 | I doubt you 're going to be there for three days though . |
| 14 | Because when all said and done if at the end of two days you do n't feel that you 're any better at making a presentation then when you started then why have you been here for two days . |
| 15 | Actually , we 've been here for 5 days already , but things have been a bit hectic . |
| 16 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 19 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 20 | Though , come to think of it , what with Lubor being away for some days last week when she 'd arrived , he must have quite some time off from his duties . |
| 21 | We were here for six days before the camels arrived , but were reassured by hearing news of them from some of the many pilgrims who passed through our camp on their way to a famous shrine of Sheikh Husain ; all carried peeled , forked wands as an emblem of their pilgrimage . |
| 22 | They were there for five days and they were producing them . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They were there for seven days and local people demanded new laws and tougher police action . |
| 25 | This wonderful new slimming aid includes three meals a day and there is enough for four days . |
| 26 | He used to go to Goose Fair , and all the fairs , whatever they was , but it was only for three days . |
| 27 | The last really bad one was in 1978 when the electricity was off for four days . |
| 28 | One of my colleagues went up to D 's cottage last weekend and PK was up for eight days about a fortnight ago , and had a really super week and not bad weather though there was a lot of snow at the roadsides on their way back — she went with current boyfriend , a nice chap who lives in Midlands . |
| 29 | I was there for four days , about four or five interviews , then I was taken to Kilburn for an identification parade . |