Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
| 2 | ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days . |
| 3 | ‘ For the first few days , ’ wrote Pilkington , ‘ it was all quite humorous . |
| 4 | Well for the first few days I found enough energy to take an occasional dip in the pool and play a leisurely game of bowls . |
| 5 | As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip . |
| 6 | In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then … |
| 7 | For the first few days after the story broke Creed lived in the car . |
| 8 | So , for the first few days of his visit , Edouard explored the city alone , except for the servant . |
| 9 | This can be reduced a little if she goes in with all she needs for the first few days : a clean dressing-gown , slippers , a change of night clothes and bedjacket and all the toilet articles and other small items she is likely to want . |
| 10 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 11 | only for the first few days |
| 12 | I reckon I 'd hardly surface from my bunker for the first few days . ’ |
| 13 | The teachers were very helpful and caring , and for the first few days I thought I was getting on quite well with my new classmates . |
| 14 | For the first few days , Dawn would pull at the jesses with her beak every ten minutes or so . |
| 15 | Throughout the field investigation there will obviously be exchanges of information between the engineering , operational , flight recorder and pathological investigators , and for the first few days at least there will be regular meetings for mutual consultation at the end of each day 's work . |
| 16 | ‘ Your main priority is to get to know the city as quickly as possible , so we 'll be acting mainly as back-up for the first few days . |
| 17 | Parents , on duty in turn , kept the egg warm and brooded the tiny chick for the first few days after hatching . |
| 18 | Despite the dubious seaworthiness of our ship , for the first few days of the storm my sense of danger was eclipsed by the exhilaration of at last thundering in the right direction . |
| 19 | For the first few days , they had been calm and relaxed . |
| 20 | Their hosts for the first few days , the Lord of the Isles , Sir Alexander Macdonald , and his wife Jane , a relative of Boswell 's , waited on the shore at Armadale , a small , dirty , sandy horseshoe of a bay , to greet them . |
| 21 | We acclimatise with shorter trips for the first few days , then split for free sailing , meeting up for a couple of days to brief for another long session of free sailing . |
| 22 | Ideally , you should use factors 12 to 15 for the first few days , while your skin 's natural defences are being activated ( the body produces more pigment cells , or melanin , and skin begins to thicken , which can take up to 48 hours to start becoming effective ) . |
| 23 | For the first few days the hands and feet become too sore to practise with , but in time they become sufficiently conditioned to withstand the constant impact and calluses begin to develop in the key areas . |
| 24 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 25 | Try and keep them dry , and take the painkillers we 'll give you for the first few days . |
| 26 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 27 | RIVER RIBBLE : High levels may cause a problem for the first few days . |
| 28 | RIVER WEAVER : Usually a good starter and busy for the first few days . |
| 29 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
| 30 | He was going out and would be engaged for the following few days . |