Sentence examples for spent long weeks from inspiring English sources

"He was very sick, but who knew there was something so terrible going around?" said a nurse named Mo at the Zhongshan No. 2 Hospital, recalling the long, frightening quarantine that followed in February, when nurses and doctors spent long weeks living in their units waiting to see if they will start to cough.

Elizabeth and I are happily back together; I spend long week-ends at home and will soon leave the hospital entirely.

Why did General Stanley McChrystal spend long, gabby weeks with a freelance called Michael Hastings?

Before the ISIS invasion, in 2014, he spent long hours in the library each week doing research, he told me.

Instead, she spent five long weeks eating nothing but the cheese that was leftover from her husband's funeral.

But these days the guides have the bored look of Maytag repairmen, spending long days and weeks outside of near-empty hotels.

Planktotrophic larvae emerge from eggs laid on the seafloor as swimming, feeding larvae that may spend long periods of time (weeks to months; e.g., Claremont et al. 2011) developing in the plankton (and being pushed by ocean currents) prior to metamorphosizing and settling on the seafloor, often far from where they hatched.

Her sixth novel, The Past, is about a group of siblings who spend three long weeks at their grandparents old house, its memory-littered rooms conspiring to bring long-buried (and not-so-long-buried) tensions to the surface.

Such disease-specific practitioners may spend long periods of time, commonly many weeks or months, without treating even one patient.

"Children spend long hours at school.

After the episode was filmed, the producers discovered that it was too long and spent two weeks deciding what to cut out.