Example sentences of "the first three days [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first three days of her monthly period she is segregated in a solitary place and is not allowed to touch anybody or anything lest she pollutes it . |
| 2 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 3 | we may safely say that nothing so remarkable as the scene of Westminster-Hall during the first three days of this week , had ever been known of by architects . |
| 4 | The royal couple found that seclusion at Broadlands , Earl Mountbatten 's home in Hampshire , where they spent the first three days of their honeymoon , followed by a leisurely Mediterranean cruise on board the royal yacht Britannia which they joined at Gibraltar . |
| 5 | Pressplan Travel has arranged a special inclusive tour to cover the first three days of the fair . |
| 6 | IN the first three days of 1993 , Japan 's National Police Agency reported record numbers of visitors at the country 's Shinto shrines. 1992 had been such a bad year that people were keen to pray for better fortunes in the months ahead . |
| 7 | He added that he had received thirty phone calls from the media enquiring about ad placement in the first three days after the ruling . |
| 8 | In nature , so to say , chicks soon learn — within the first three days after hatching at the latest — who their mother is , and follow her thereafter . |
| 9 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |
| 10 | On 26 March the junta decided that the invasion would take place on one of the first three days in April . |
| 11 | The mean values were considerably increased above the corresponding reference intervals during the first three days in the intensive care unit . |