And he'll undoubtedly be laid up for a few weeks.

Not a lot of action there; the guy's been laid up for more than a week.

Toward the end of November she was laid up for the winter.

She was laid up in Texas for about 2 months.

They need to be laid up for a week, he thought.

A third of the work force would be laid up for two to four weeks.

There are, however, benefits to being laid up in the city; for one, you never really have to leave home.

On 14 July the ship was laid up for the rest of the war.

Why, I might be laid up for weeks, months even.

He was laid up for four and a half months until April 1981.