Example sentences of "the first days [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first days of July , 12 people were arrested in Florence , including the deputy mayor , Gianni Conti ( DC ) . |
| 2 | Nowhere seemed to be safe from the searching French guns ; during the first days of March one regiment lost more men while behind the lines in reserve than during its assault on Haumont Wood the first day of the offensive . |
| 3 | And by the first days of May , the entire Russian line in the area was in flight . |
| 4 | News of the transfer produced a steady drift back to work in the Kuzbass and Vorkuta coalfields in the first days of May , at the same time as the strike in the Ukraine 's Donbass coalfield began to crumble . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The entire vast enterprise lurched into uneasy motion at last , in the first days of September , in the strange , ominous hush of the end of that disastrous summer , while France sat mute and made no sign , and the Scots , for all their gadfly raids , seemed to hold off from testing the defences of the north . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Premature babies are more susceptible to illness in the first days of life than full-term babies , and being fed exclusively on breast milk can help them in the fight against infection . |
| 9 | At least ninety-three people lost their lives in the first days of fighting . |
| 10 | In France a new press bureau for war purposes was set up in the first days of fighting . |
| 11 | One Iranian was killed by Israeli soldiers in the first days of November , and four more , who had been carrying rifles and ammunition , were killed on Nov. 11 . |
| 12 | The predominant adverse effects after the first days of therapy were fatigue ( 73% ) , myalgia ( 60% ) , anorexia ( 43% ) , irritability ( 30% ) , and hair loss ( 15% ) . |
| 13 | From the first days of August , the president has had trouble even articulating the war aims , as not a few American commentators pointed out before ‘ supporting our boys ’ , prayer breakfasts , and a patriotism that may be more anxious than it yet seems , silenced them . |
| 14 | She wrote to us about it , it was like the first days in Britain except the weather was much better . |
| 15 | I remembered the first days in New York when I ran like a wild animal set free from a cage . |
| 16 | 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 . |