Example sentences of "the first days " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | From videofilms shown to reporters in Saudi Arabia , and the reports of the few journalists who spent the first days of the war in Baghdad , other successful hits can be independently verified . |
| 4 | He had hardly ever seen her naked since the first days of their marriage , and she had n't been anxious to show herself even then . |
| 5 | Speaking from the expedition 's base camp at Camp Resolute , Devon Island , Canada , Miss Elaine May , the expedition 's link with the outside world , said the first days had gone well , with the team covering 15 miles a day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The story is a history of the turns in the ‘ boom-bust ’ cycle of the Plains since the first days of the fur hunters . |
| 8 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 9 | Reduction of dose is similarly used for so-called sensitive cases who are immediately over stimulated or prove the remedy during the first days , or hours , of treatment . |
| 10 | It is kin , often , who provide shelter during the first days in the town and who help the migrant build his/her own home . |
| 11 | My wife and I spent the first days of our married life at Abbey St Bathan 's , on Whiteadder , when we stayed with a remarkable lady , Miss Gillon , in her gardener 's cottage . |
| 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 | The first days of the war saw the Saltash Territorials ordered to break up camp at Exeter and proceed to Falmouth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | With the first days of the war came another change , a retrograde one this time , in the way Barham House was managed . |
| 16 | The first days back were hard for Sarah . |
| 17 | In the first days she said her one hope was that her children , isolated though they were , could feel ‘ held ’ in the same safe way . |
| 18 | Having already made substantial structural changes to his garage to make room for the aeroplane 's assembly , and storage when complete , he spent the first days after its arrival using some of the surplus lumber from its packing crate to build a workbench , only to discover on completion that it all had to come apart again to extract the stepladder he 'd used to support it during assembly . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first days may be hard , but you 'll soon get into it . |
| 21 | The Newsons ( 1965 ) in Nottingham in the late 1950s similarly found 83 per cent of mothers potting their babies before 1 year , with 63 per cent starting before 8 months , and 20 per cent in the first days after birth . |
| 22 | ‘ He was very charming in the first days and said he was really jealous that I could live like this . ’ |
| 23 | Their husbands Garry Lennox , 35 , and Kevin Weeks , 37 , died in the first days of the Gulf War 19 months ago . |
| 24 | And harder than the first weeks are the first days . |
| 25 | And by the first days of May , the entire Russian line in the area was in flight . |
| 26 | He was immediately dispatched to the scene , where his energy , intelligence and presence of mind made him the chief decision-taker in the first days after the explosion of reactor number four . |
| 27 | ‘ Son of Thatcher ’ may have provided a holding position in the first days after his election but it has no life left in it . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | During the first days they talked of no one else : this man had loved my father . |
| 30 | At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting . |