Example sentences of "[prep] the first three days " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first three days of her monthly period she is segregated in a solitary place and is not allowed to touch anybody or anything lest she pollutes it . |
| 2 | For the first three days after a foal is born it is usually fairly accepting of the world around it , and it is of considerable advantage to us to make use of these three days to teach the foal that we are friendly and trustworthy . |
| 3 | Month led for the first three days — starting the final day six shots clear . |
| 4 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |
| 5 | Military staff ensured that they had no sleep for the first three days , after which short periods of sleep ( 4 hours ) were permitted every twenty-four hours . |
| 6 | For the first three days we were locked in the classrooms and never saw the light of day . ’ |
| 7 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 8 | we may safely say that nothing so remarkable as the scene of Westminster-Hall during the first three days of this week , had ever been known of by architects . |
| 9 | A further ten to 15 per cent reduction on many half-price sale items during the first three days . |
| 10 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |
| 11 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
| 12 | The mean values were considerably increased above the corresponding reference intervals during the first three days in the intensive care unit . |
| 13 | On 26 March the junta decided that the invasion would take place on one of the first three days in April . |
| 14 | Watched by encouragingly large crowds — a total of 57,684 , with over 13,000 on each of the first three days — this match was a reminder of much that is good about Test cricket . |
| 15 | England 's players had a lazy rest day today , many of them reporting that they felt drained by playing in the heat and humidity of the first three days . |
| 16 | In nature , so to say , chicks soon learn — within the first three days after hatching at the latest — who their mother is , and follow her thereafter . |
| 17 | In Britain the biggest box-office hit was Batman Returns with Pounds 2.77 million in the first three days . |
| 18 | He added that he had received thirty phone calls from the media enquiring about ad placement in the first three days after the ruling . |
| 19 | IN the first three days of 1993 , Japan 's National Police Agency reported record numbers of visitors at the country 's Shinto shrines. 1992 had been such a bad year that people were keen to pray for better fortunes in the months ahead . |
| 20 | Over the first three days he was watched increasingly closely , as it appeared that he may have been sleeping during the early evening when no recordings were being made , and during the nights his wife seemed to be doing her best to keep him awake . |