The Speaker and his lieutenants have spent days trying to twist arms and wrangle votes within their own conference.
Chris Schuhmacher spent days memorizing and giving his talk at all hours in the days leading up to the demo day.
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He spent days constructing dams in a creek at his grandparents' farm, including one so high that it flooded the barn.
Th e media have spent days wringing their hands about the poor young men whose lives are now ruined (note the passive tense).
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Farmers have spent days digging out the bodies, but they are unable to dispose of them because of EU laws on burying animals.
Andy Copeland then pays tribute to the strength of his daughter, who has spent days in intensive care at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Georgia.
More than 300 volunteers spent days helping to clear the amusement parks as well as the boardwalk and nearby playground areas, churches and streets.
Telecom firms said they spent days preparing for Hurricane Sandy by activating regional coordination centers, testing equipment and positioning fuel for backup power generators.
We spent days arguing about the issues and the possible solutions.
She spent days in tears, chanting, "I want my brother, " Mrs.
Filings on campaign fund raising were due to the Federal Election Committee on April 15, and reporters and campaign watchdog groups have spent days combing through the FEC's filings.
Before Tuesday's hearing, Jeffrey Verschleiser, one of Goldman's mortgage-division heads, spent days poring through email and other documents to help executives prepare for their testimony, said people familiar with the matter.
"We literally spent days talking about this, " Felt said.
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"Spent Days Out Yonder" (2000) is the palest of the run's offerings, from the colors of Liz Prince's casual-wear costumes to the flicked gesturing and hollow, parading pace of Mr. Jones's unmemorable choreography.
Reports about the "body-in-a-bag spy" describe how two experts spent days trying to figure out whether Williams, who was athletic and of medium height, could have contorted himself in such as way as to lock himself into the North Face holdall bag, with a key to the padlock inside.
Again, Dan, the process that is gone through on many of these steps is -- and Secretary Chu and Dr. McNutt and others have spent days and days and days in Houston, particularly around big events such as this one with the sealing cap and the Helix Producer coming online.
In the case of Carnival Cruise Lines, the owner of the Carnival Triumph that spent days in the Gulf of Mexico disabled after an engine fire, the company is incorporated in Panama, its offices are based in Miami and its ships fly under the Bahamian flag a matrix that is not unusual in the cruise line industry.
In my case, from the first call that they were cancelling my installation visit until the 6 days spent by VZ restoring my static IP address, I also spent two days with no phone service on two phone lines and two different days without service on the other two lines.
Most of us spend our days the same way people spent their days in the year 1000: walking around smiling, trying to earn enough to eat, while neurotically doing these little self-proofs in our head about how much better we are than these other slobs, while simultaneously, in another part of our brain, secretly feeling woefully inadequate to these smarter, more beautiful people.
While these patients spent a bit less time in the hospital, they also spent more days in the ICU. Most disturbingly, dementia patients spent more time in the intensive care in 2009 than in 2000.
She spent her days in the lab, trying to figure out how to genetically engineer plants.
He spent two days on a ventilator in intensive care at Ninewells Hospital after the attack.
Mr Burrell spent 16 days in the Australian jungle with the TV show I'm A Celebrity.....
Lee Atwater, who worked for Mr. Bush, spent his days furiously phoning around for information.
She spent 90 days in isolation at home, until she was no longer infectious.
Audrie spent two days on life support after she hanged herself, according to the family's lawsuit.
He spent 18 days in hospital in December undergoing treatment for a lung infection and gallstones.
Mr Kerr spent four days in hospital and had steel rods inserted to mend his leg.
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