Example sentences of "they stay for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Frequently they stay for some days .
2 They stayed for two weeks , grazing the yaks .
3 Once the children were fully fit , the family went on to Paris , where they stayed for two months .
4 During the ‘ Killing Times ’ of the 1880s , when the Covenanters were being hunted down and killed mercilessly , the father fled with his family to Ireland , where they stayed for several years , probably until after James II and VII was deposed in 1688 .
5 Once in South Africa , they went to Johannesburg where they stayed for twenty weeks before going on to Durban , Port Elizabeth , Cape Town and Kimberley .
6 So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days .
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