Examples of use of (for) three days running
1. Insurgents (for) three days running last week managed to lob mortar rounds into the Green Zone, the heart of the U.S. and Iraqi administration.
2. Israeli military operations showed no signs of abating Friday, despite a three–hour lull in fighting that has been instituted (for) three days running to allow aid to reach Gaza‘s distressed people.
3. "With unusually low temperatures (for) three days running, residents and companies consume 10 percent to 15 percent more electricity," a spokeswoman for national electricity giant Unified Energy Systems, Tatyana Milyayeva, said by telephone Monday.
4. The decision to reduce power to some enterprises comes after UES chief Anatoly Chubais warned in November that supplies might need to be cut in nonessential industries in the event of temperatures falling to minus 25 C (for) three days running, in order to prevent wider power cuts.