In the old days Hortons Bay was a lumbering town.

She had been trying to have her baby for two days.

He had cut his foot very badly with an ax three days before.

And just after the war I spent two days with them in Chicago.

Liz and Mrs. Smith were cooking for four days for them before they started.

I had a dog⁠—at least I had him for a few days until he ran away⁠—and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman, who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.