Sentence examples for left for weeks from inspiring English sources

I was a day boy, home every night, but some were left for weeks.

This means already hard-up people are left for weeks without cash before their social security entitlement comes through.

The storm disrupted medical services across the island, and many households were left for weeks without water, electricity, or cell phone coverage.

Left for weeks to dry under a winter sun, the fish get as tough as cowhide and are considered a national delicacy.

At about that time I had burned the deadened skin of my leg with a hot-water bottle, and was left for weeks with a necrotising hole.

He often left for weeks at a time to attend bridge tournaments and would take the occasional Friday off during the summer, in the midst of the subprime crisis, for rounds of golf near his second home in New Jersey.

Although he tends a plot of land, he leaves for weeks at a time to toil as a construction worker hundreds of miles away.

After a few weeks the girls returned home, and Michael left for several weeks on the court's order.

Then he left for two weeks of temporary duty at another location, and a week of vacation.

The corpses would be left for two weeks to rot in the street".

The mice were left for two weeks to acclimatise before being injected with tumour cells.