Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] for [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | A EURO information bus arrives at Chester Castle car park today after being based for two days in Ellesmere Port . |
| 2 | The emphasis on map and compass skills comes in the wake of a near disaster last August when a group of 14 children and their young leader were airlifted to safety after being lost for two days east of Dalwhinnie in the Highlands . |
| 3 | K. Doraiswamy , executive director of the Indian Oil Corporation , was freed on Aug. 20 after being held for 55 days by the Ikhwan-ul-Muslameen group . |
| 4 | A CAMERAMAN was plucked to safety yesterday after being trapped for two days inside an active volcano . |
| 5 | However , an aid convoy and a French field hospital trying to reach Srebrenica remained blocked yesterday while trucks intended for the Muslim town of Zepa were ordered to return to Belgrade by the UN after being stalled for six days . |
| 6 | On Oct. 22 , 1990 , he had been ordered to be detained for 60 days in a military camp for sending a letter to Menem warning him that unrest in the army could provoke a " military rebellion " . |
| 7 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 8 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 9 | The assassination of Martin Luther King six days before , only one of a tragic series in recent American history , had caused the event to be postponed for two days . |
| 10 | Several members of the European Parliament , including Mr Cot , had called for the pair to be suspended for five days with financial penalties . |