Example sentences of "and stay [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whenever the so-called yield gap ( long minus short rates ) goes negative , and stays so for longer than two business quarters , past experience suggests that the banks get badly bruised . |
| 2 | If she sat beside him her head would loll onto his shoulder and stay there for long moments . |
| 3 | Just the three of us , my parents and me , would go down to Hury and stay there for two or three weeks , or until the work was done . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It might also cause the price of oil to soar above $50 a barrel and stay there for some months . |
| 6 | In 1682 , he was forced to go back to Ireland and to stay there for 3 years . |
| 7 | Louise came up for the funeral and stayed on for three weeks to give moral support . |
| 8 | He went back into hospital and stayed there for five weeks . |
| 9 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 10 | Screen debut — Sue joined Nationwide in 1972 , and stayed there for 12 years |
| 11 | It displaced The Smiths ' ‘ Strangeways Here We Come ’ in the independent charts and stayed there for several weeks . |
| 12 | He went to France to paint and stayed there for longer than she thought necessary . |
| 13 | He claimed his reservation at the Hotel Gul Bejaze , and stayed there for three weeks . |