Example sentences of "[prep] the first days [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , Mr Yeltsin , like Mr Gorbachev , was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev , when hope began to dawn after Stalin 's long night . |
| 2 | During the first days of that Holy Week Mrs Abigail continued to believe that she could not endure a marriage that was a travesty , and that she could no longer endure life in Dynmouth . |
| 3 | She had not exactly been reading Tennyson but had remembered John quoting one of his poems during the first days of their acquaintance . |
| 4 | Aurel Dragos Munteanu , appointed director of Romanian Television and Radio during the first days of the December revolution , resigned on Feb. 9 after widespread public criticism that he had manipulated broadcasting to benefit the NSF . |
| 5 | Nowhere seemed to be safe from the searching French guns ; during the first days of March one regiment lost more men while behind the lines in reserve than during its assault on Haumont Wood the first day of the offensive . |
| 6 | There was the commander of the Cigognes , Captain Brocard , wounded during the first days of the fighting at Verdun , and relieved of his command the following year — because he simply could not adapt to the new conditions of air warfare the old form of single combat that had brought the Cigognes such renown in the early days . |
| 7 | Another tom did the same thing , supplying his female with food while she was unable to leave the nest during the first days after producing her litter . |
| 8 | It is kin , often , who provide shelter during the first days in the town and who help the migrant build his/her own home . |
| 9 | The predominant adverse effects after the first days of therapy were fatigue ( 73% ) , myalgia ( 60% ) , anorexia ( 43% ) , irritability ( 30% ) , and hair loss ( 15% ) . |
| 10 | She wrote to us about it , it was like the first days in Britain except the weather was much better . |
| 11 | With the first days of the war came another change , a retrograde one this time , in the way Barham House was managed . |
| 12 | Now she suddenly thought what an interesting and novel item it would make in the fete if the Pack dressed up as Brownies through the years , showing the Brownie uniform from the first days to the present time . |
| 13 | He was what we have learned to call a WASP , and his lifetime coincided with the process , not yet quite completed , by which that caste — white Anglo-Saxon protestants of the northeast — was supplanted from the position of privilege that they had enjoyed from the first days of the Republic . |
| 14 | Interestingly enough , broadside probably derives from the naval tactic of firing all the guns from one side of a ship of war at once , without giving the recipient the necessity of awaiting installments Such sheets are of historic importance , since they date back to the sixteenth century , when popular poems and ballads were issued in this form ; and royal and official proclamations took to the streets in this guise almost from the first days of printing . |
| 15 | The party as a whole proved the reality of its patriotism from the first days of the war , and the logic of this continuation from peacetime was underlined by the speed with which Ulster Unionists rallied to the flag in 1914 , and the gallantry with which they died on the Somme in 1916 . |
| 16 | From the first days of August , the president has had trouble even articulating the war aims , as not a few American commentators pointed out before ‘ supporting our boys ’ , prayer breakfasts , and a patriotism that may be more anxious than it yet seems , silenced them . |
| 17 | In the first days of the campaign , even many loyal Tories were dismayed by his stiffness on the press conference platform , the lack of rhetorical fire in his speeches on the campaign trail . |
| 18 | Their husbands Garry Lennox , 35 , and Kevin Weeks , 37 , died in the first days of the Gulf War 19 months ago . |
| 19 | At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting . |
| 20 | Witness , for example , the wildly discrepant assessments of the effectiveness of allied air-raids in the first days of the war or the ‘ classification error ’ which led to the deaths of hundreds of civilians in Baghdad . |
| 21 | Premature babies are more susceptible to illness in the first days of life than full-term babies , and being fed exclusively on breast milk can help them in the fight against infection . |
| 22 | Eventually , in the first days of the new decade , it was to find a more permanent home in the socially acceptable Portobello Road . |
| 23 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 24 | The entire vast enterprise lurched into uneasy motion at last , in the first days of September , in the strange , ominous hush of the end of that disastrous summer , while France sat mute and made no sign , and the Scots , for all their gadfly raids , seemed to hold off from testing the defences of the north . |
| 25 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 26 | One Iranian was killed by Israeli soldiers in the first days of November , and four more , who had been carrying rifles and ammunition , were killed on Nov. 11 . |
| 27 | In the first days of July , 12 people were arrested in Florence , including the deputy mayor , Gianni Conti ( DC ) . |
| 28 | Some signs of their emergence can be seen even in the first days of the " new diplomacy " . |
| 29 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 30 | Birds , seals and other wildlife were found dead in the first days of the disaster , and fishing and salmon farming were banned in a large area . |