Sentence examples for perhaps for days from inspiring English sources

The important difference is that the pain lasts for a much longer period—at least half an hour and usually for several hours and perhaps for days.

For passengers on most other cruise ships, however, the possibility of getting stuck on the water perhaps for days may be an inevitable part of buying a ticket.

Rather than wait for the buses, perhaps for days, some migrants decide to walk the forty miles from Molyvos to the Mytilene encampments.

To the side is a row of lorries, their drivers waiting and haggling, perhaps for days, until the right bribe can be agreed on.Your correspondent had an easier time.

(And if they hadn't been flying the planes, who had? Europeans, perhaps?) For days, an E-mail had circulated concerning the newsreel footage, first shown on CNN, of Palestinians celebrating in East Jerusalem in the hours after the attack; it was ten-year-old videotape, several people assured me, recycled from the Gulf War, when Iraqi missiles landed in Israel.

All too aware that big snowstorms can make or break politicians, governors and mayors moved quickly to declare emergencies and order the shutdown of highways, streets and commuter railroads — perhaps for days — to prevent travelers from getting stranded and to enable plows and emergency vehicles to get through.

Forty one percent of all carers whose children were absent from school were employed and this could have resulted in days lost from work; for the missed school days, any pre-assessment visit, the day of the procedure and perhaps for several days after before the child was ready to return to school.

He says he wants to build an eco-resort, but people in Reykjavik — still trying to disown their own mad boom and bust — can't help but see specters lurking: a Chinese government plot to access the Arctic, perhaps, for the days when melting poles free up new resources?

Metro-North and Amtrak train service through New Haven will remain suspended, perhaps for several days, the authorities said Saturday, as investigators continued to seek the cause of a train derailment and collision during the Friday evening rush that injured at least 70 people, five of them critically.

Perhaps for those days when he's boiling an ox.

But perhaps, for one day a year, we should all agree to put our middle-class cynicism to one side.