Example sentences of "first [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A young couple in the first blissful days of their union needed to be alone together .
3 The Treaty also permitted " declared site inspections " ( i.e. of sites where treaty-limited weapons were declared to be held ) , and some " challenge inspections " , especially in the first 120 days , although inspections would continue after that period .
4 ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day .
5 Demirel had also , according to The Month in Turkey newsletter of Nov. 10 , rejected an offer by the outgoing Motherland Party ( ANAP ) Prime Minister , Mesut Yilmaz , for the ANAP to provide a DYP government with " tacit support " for the first 500 days , although the ANAP was regarded as closer in its ideology to the DYP than was the SHP .
6 Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people .
7 Their call is timed to coincide with the first European Day for disabled people .
8 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 .
9 For most , the first few days were the worst .
10 Some Age Concern groups , social services departments and other organisations run a variety of hospital discharge schemes which can help people over the first few days or weeks after a stay in hospital .
11 For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 I obviously made some fundamental mistakes within the first few days of my move .
17 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 ) .
18 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 .
19 ‘ The whole experience has been a lot of fun and the crew have been fantastic , especially in the very beginning because I was nervous for the first few days .
20 Almost without being aware of it I 'd progressed from the hesitancy of my first few days there to a strong positive desire to go down to the starting gate : any starting gate , anywhere .
21 Recently Mrs Thatcher , working on her memoirs , was trying to reconstruct her first few days in Downing Street in 1979 .
22 ‘ For the first few days , ’ wrote Pilkington , ‘ it was all quite humorous .
23 Well for the first few days I found enough energy to take an occasional dip in the pool and play a leisurely game of bowls .
24 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 .
25 To condemn the child in the first few days of its life , and engineer its death can only be a gross misjustice .
26 Breast milk , the best milk for such babies or for those who have had to undergo an operation during the first few days or weeks of life , is collected from mothers of healthy babies who have more than enough to satisfy their needs .
27 As a full stomach makes it even harder for a baby with RDS to breathe he was n't able to feed for the first few days and relied on the drip .
28 ( 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 .
29 In retrospect , it seemed that the Lord protected her for the first few days , and then …
30 What happens during the first few days when a resident comes to live in a Home ?
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