Example sentences of "the first few days [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 2 | I obviously made some fundamental mistakes within the first few days of my move . |
| 3 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 4 | In the more severe cases of mental handicap , there are various specific causes , such as the infection of the foetus in the womb , a disease in the parent , or a disease or infection in the first few days of life . |
| 5 | To condemn the child in the first few days of its life , and engineer its death can only be a gross misjustice . |
| 6 | ( June 22-July 23 ) Although Jupiter is now sparkling away in your own birth sign and you in turn should feel decidedly more buoyant or optimistic , unfortunately , the atmosphere at home is likely to remain strained during the first few days of the month . |
| 7 | During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes . |
| 8 | Depression and loneliness will descend after the first few days of nervous euphoria . |
| 9 | In the first few days of the experiment , you may feel a need for sweetness : make sure you have enough dried fruits or artificial sweeteners to satisfy cravings . |
| 10 | So , for the first few days of his visit , Edouard explored the city alone , except for the servant . |
| 11 | Andrew Beattie received his ‘ allegations ’ in the first few days of October . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This may help to activate your skin 's natural defences so that you have slightly more natural protection on the first few days of exposure . |
| 14 | So a mass suicide had erm you know the people were planning a mass suicide in the first few days of the siege . |
| 15 | In the first few days of December more missiles hit the city than in the whole of November . |
| 16 | In the first few days of February the armed forces began a swift withdrawal from the towns and , notably , from the area around the Guazapa volcano , the FMLN 's main bastion . |
| 17 | The first few days of what she and Cara now termed their ‘ Czechoslovakian Experience ’ had been carefully planned , so that Fabia knew in advance that she would never get to see Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 18 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time . |
| 21 | The first few days in a residential home can be very frightening for many elderly people . |
| 22 | The first few days in any organisation are all about issues like these . |
| 23 | The oligosaccharides have been found to be particularly concentrated in colostrum — the thick , creamy pre-milk that is produced by the breasts in late pregnancy and during the first few days after birth before the breastmilk proper comes in . |
| 24 | The first few days after the burial she had felt like dying herself , mostly of shame , but she had set about her tasks with the same efficiency as always , and if she did n't speak to anyone it was because words would have brought fresh tears . |
| 25 | In almost all investigations of any size , one investigator can be occupied full time taking statements during the first few days after the accident . |
| 26 | Condemnation was at once forthcoming from many politicians , but in the first few days after the murders Mr Kohl turned down invitations to appear on television , preferring to offer his denunciation from the pages of a newspaper . |
| 27 | Parents , on duty in turn , kept the egg warm and brooded the tiny chick for the first few days after hatching . |
| 28 | Imprinting usually takes place in the first few days after birth . |
| 29 | 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 . |