Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] for a few day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 2 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 3 | Where a slight flow of water is guaranteed for a few days , for example in crevices and gullies that conduct snow-melt trickles , mosses gather among the lichens . |
| 4 | They are much more risky , tending to be highly volatile — rising quickly but often falling faster , indeed sometimes trading is suspended for a few days so you are locked in until trading resumes usually at a much lower level . |
| 5 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |