Example sentences of "in the [num ord] few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The newly-flooded margins will be attractive to the fish in the first few days , until the sudden influx of size ten waders make them wary . |
| 4 | Since the bombing raids began over Iraq , Britons have flocked to join the army ( inquiries in London have quintupled ) ; to give blood ( in Plymouth alone , more than 1,600 people volunteered in the first few days , and 110,000 followed suit across the country ) ; and to say their prayers ( Winchester Cathedral reported that the congregation for Matins last Sunday was up by a half on the usual number ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To condemn the child in the first few days of its life , and engineer its death can only be a gross misjustice . |
| 8 | In his Mercedes he was stopped four times in the first few days . |
| 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 | In the first few days , too , I was made to realize my relative poverty . |
| 11 | Andrew Beattie received his ‘ allegations ’ in the first few days of October . |
| 12 | All these viral infections have the same symptoms in the first few days — a patient might have ‘ flu , measles , hepatitis — ye canna tell during the porodomal period' — he used the technical term for the period of incubation . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These symptoms are usually worse in the first few days , lessening thereafter . |
| 15 | Do n't overdo it in the first few days . |
| 16 | So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down . |
| 17 | Recovery after a stroke is greatest in the first few days and weeks — but it does n't stop there . |
| 18 | Imprinting usually takes place in the first few days after birth . |
| 19 | It turned out to be a real disaster when , in the first few days , we had an engine room fire which kept us alongside at Torquay for practically the whole three weeks . |
| 20 | ‘ In the first few days , we saw tangible benefits from the association in the form of lower insurance costs , coupled with much improved coverage . |
| 21 | So a mass suicide had erm you know the people were planning a mass suicide in the first few days of the siege . |
| 22 | In the first few days of December more missiles hit the city than in the whole of November . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He loves opera , in that the long rehearsal span and run of performances allows him ‘ to get the psychology out of the way in the first few days ’ — clearly , he worries a great deal about the mental interchange with his workforce — but he intends to keep a balance with concert work . |
| 25 | He is likely to be put on an aircraft in the next few days . |
| 26 | COATS Viyella , the textile group which expects to hear whether it is allowed to take over rival Tootal in the next few days , has sold its medical businesses to Pharma-Plast Holdings for £12m . |
| 27 | We 're going to have to watch Cullam , see if he does some big spending in the next few days . |
| 28 | And it is expected that in the next few days she will address the military 's other grievances . |
| 29 | How he will now speak of the methods used last weekend by the security services could become clear in the next few days . |
| 30 | Unless Iraq 's dictator sounds the retreat in the next few days , he will soon be unable to meet the January 15th deadline set by the United Nations for the complete removal of his army from Kuwait . |