Example sentences of "the first [adj] days [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the overall extent of civilian casualties remained unclear , Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Hammadi suggested during his visit to Tehran in mid-February [ see above ] that more than 20,000 of his compatriots had been killed and 60,000 wounded in the first 26 days of the war . |
| 2 | Despite Clinton 's hopes for action within the first 100 days of his administration , it is more realistic to expect legislative hearings during March and April and the earliest Congressional action on any legislation in May or early June . |
| 3 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 4 | Foals can suffer a variety of bacterial or viral infections in the first fourteen days of life . |
| 5 | The doctor in charge , the hospital managers or the nearest relative may discharge the patient , who has a right to apply to the Mental Health Review Tribunal within the first fourteen days of detention . |
| 6 | Then the judge suspended the sentence , placing him on probation for two years but with the first sixty days to be spent in Los Angeles County Jail . |
| 7 | In the first 11 days of 1990 there were 72 victims of political violence . |
| 8 | A young couple in the first blissful days of their union needed to be alone together . |
| 9 | After the first eight days of action — during which 19 of his 31 officers were killed and seven wounded , and the battalion was reduced to 40 per cent of its original strength — he himself was badly wounded leading a counter-attack . |
| 10 | The earliest record for spring arrival is of one at Chidham on 23 March 1971 , but arrival always starts in the first 10 days of April , and some movement continues to mid-June . |
| 11 | SALES of K-reg cars in the first 10 days of August were a big disappointment , it was revealed yesterday . |
| 12 | Ukrainian and Western researchers now believe that the fire at the plant was not extinguished by material dropped from helicopters within the first 10 days after the accident , as originally claimed , but simply burned itself out . |
| 13 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 14 | The first nine days of instruction ( there were no days off — ‘ Communism does n't stand down on Sundays ’ ) were devoted to desk learning . |
| 15 | The first nine days of 1993 saw the large European anticyclone and rather typical Atlantic depressions draw a mainly mild , south to southwesterly airstream across Scotland . |
| 16 | Brewster is merely an old word for ‘ brewer ’ — which is why licensing sessions , held in the first 14 days of February , have that name . |
| 17 | As regards contracts of employment , it is provided that he is to be liable on any contract of employment adopted by him but nothing he does or omits to do in the first 14 days of his appointment is to be taken as adoption of the contract . |
| 18 | Item 5 is a weekly benefit , of which the first 14 days of any period of incapacity is excluded and benefit is payable for 104 weeks from the 15th day of incapacity . |
| 19 | The first 14 days of any period of disablement is excluded and benefit is payable for up to 104 weeks from the 15th day of disablement . |
| 20 | HT-29 cells in control media showed a rapid log phase growth in the first 14 days of culture ( Figure ) . |
| 21 | Most confessions at the police holding centres have been signed during the first two days of custody . |
| 22 | One of the most controversial proposals was the abolition of benefit for the first two days of sickness . |
| 23 | For the first two days of the four-day event each professional would be partnered by an amateur , who would play off his club handicap . |
| 24 | Organised by the Guild of Agricultural Journalists and sponsored by John Deere the first two days of lectures and practical work will be at the firm 's training centre . |
| 25 | The only reason I was here was because Joyce , who was to spend the first two days at the Centre with me , had continuously reminded me on the journey that the decision to go to Bristol had been mine and mine alone . |
| 26 | The first two days at ‘ The Pickeridge ’ I spent in my room , with my meals brought up by Ada , the housemaid , and being visited by Lady Shelley . |
| 27 | Payment of income support is related to pension payment days , and she was not remunerated for the first five days of the elderly person 's occupation . |
| 28 | Differences between the means of the first five days of illness were significant by the Kruskal-Wallis test ( p<0.01 ) . |
| 29 | It was reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and lost equipment . |
| 30 | Although the government reported that the first four days of the war had cost Britain £100m in ammunition and equipment , the cost is so far proving light for Mr Average . |