Example sentences of "of [art] first [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slow , low pitch and the sluggish scoring of the first four days suggested that India might survive , but would not approach their target : but the reality was different , the tourists producing the most attacking batting of the match on a thrilling final day . |
| 2 | Finally , over the devastated battlefield and the approach roads — the latter rendered quite chaotic by the even more viscous mud of the Woevre , and clogged with the moving gun-teams — it was impossible to bring up enough ammunition to sustain anything like the rate of fire of the first four days . |
| 3 | When the Israelites go out to gather it , each of them gathers exactly the right amount for himself and his family ; on the sixth day of the week a double portion is given and collected so that the sabbath rest can be properly kept ; on the sabbath , appropriately , no manna appears at all ; while any kept at the end of any of the first five days goes bad overnight , the half of the sixth day 's gathering put aside for the sabbath keeps perfectly fresh . |
| 4 | Differences between the means of the first five days of illness were significant by the Kruskal-Wallis test ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 5 | Faldo also made birdies at both the 15th and 16th and putted better than he had on either of the first two days . |
| 6 | Jack Mason had continued in his untroubled and uninspired vein of the first two days and had finished way down the field . |
| 7 | Fortunately those games brought together Europe 's Big Four who between them were to win six points out of the nine which Europe had accumulated at the end of the first two days . |
| 8 | The participants had decided to walk 20km on each of the first two days and finish by walking 10km on the last day . |
| 9 | At Chantilly , news of the first two days ' fighting had not particularly upset General Joffre . |
| 10 | After the bruisings of the first 100 days , the president should have a shrewd idea which issues he should fight for , and which he should cheerfully surrender as lost . |
| 11 | Inevitably , the pace of legislative change slowed down after the hectic activity of the first Hundred Days . |
| 12 | Much of the debate of the first few days concerned the use of Latin in the liturgy , but the debate itself of course took place in Latin . |
| 13 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 14 | On 26 March the junta decided that the invasion would take place on one of the first three days in April . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With that remark I took my leave and made my way through the orchard and onto the road leading to Brigade H.Q That evening as I lay in my trench I thought about the events of the first seven days in Normandy . |
| 18 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |