Sentence examples for ground for weeks from inspiring English sources

The insurgency seeking the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad holds large stretches of territory in the north and has been gaining ground for weeks in the south.

Under the right conditions -- high heat and humidity -- the bacteria, which are shed in animal urine, can live on the ground for weeks or months.

"In the beginning of February," he added, "there was snow and ice on the ground for weeks, and there are people who don't clear their walks".

Freezing weather began before Christmas and lasted until early March with the snow lying on the ground for weeks, and rivers and lakes were frozen solid.

Despite snow storms often being spread weeks apart, snow often covers the ground for weeks after major winter storms due to the low night temperatures refreezing the snowpack, even when daytime temperatures are above freezing.

Even after the airlines were allowed to resume operations in mid-September, private planes were kept grounded for weeks.

A spokesman for the group said the EC 225 version could be grounded "for weeks".

"Vehicles would be grounded for weeks or months for such minor compliance matters as an airbag warning sticker that might peel off the sun visor or an incorrect phone number printed in the owner's manual," he said when introducing the amendment.

This will also work if you're grounded for weeks or months, and may decrease the amount of time you're grounded.

And most prominently, there is the central issue of abortion, over which both candidates have been waging a bitter ground war for weeks, splitting a once-solid ideological front.

In many cases, it is the F.D.N.Y.'s own negligence for failing to provide proper respiratory apparatus at ground zero for weeks after the attacks that led to thousands of firefighters getting so sick, severely injured and, in many cases, permanently disabled.