Example sentences of "[num ord] ten days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 2 | Nothing came of his enquiries and the first ten days of October passed uneventfully with his praise of Helen 's ‘ lovely portion of that maidenliness which you shall never lose ’ . |
| 3 | The only major variation in training was during the first ten days before a new season , when players were not allowed to kick a ball . |
| 4 | Fortunately , with improved surgical and technical techniques it is now possible to operate on the cataracts of newborn children within the first ten days of life in some cases , and this is considered by some consultants to be advisable . |
| 5 | Planetary activity in Taurus during the first ten days in May will give your personal affairs or morale a marvellous boost , but after that complications will arise . |
| 6 | Normally , patients will continue to come to the nursing station for periodic assessment during the first ten days of treatment but already by the second day they attend lectures and individual and group counselling sessions . |
| 7 | The martyrdom of Husain , as the Karbala episode is usually described , is commemorated early in each Muslim New Year for the first ten days of the month of Muharram : in Shiite communities men form processions , bare to the waist , beating themselves with whips and chains until their bodies run with blood , chanting a recitation of the events of 680 . |
| 8 | Let's say that erm I was these contracts within the first ten days . |
| 9 | A statement issued after talks with his conservative rival Ruslan Khasbulatov said the meeting of the Congress of People 's Deputies to ratify an expected power-sharing agreement could take place in the first ten days of March . |
| 10 | Within the first ten days , Boelcke personally added four more planes to his bag . |
| 11 | , a delightful person , was my guardian angel for the first ten days of the tour , and was also good enough to rearrange my return journey from Hyderabad , so that I could get back in London in time for an appointment on 29 November . |
| 12 | Three times in the next ten days the beacons passed news from point to point — from Rubha Nan Gall across the Sound of Mull to Castle Nan Con , back to Aros , across to Ardtornish and back again to Duart — that the threat that had first been hinted in Luch 's arrival had taken solid shape . |
| 13 | It was just as well I did request an s.a.e. as over the next ten days I received over five hundred requests ! |
| 14 | During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second . |
| 15 | Commander Genda went through the plans in detail over the next ten days and came to the conclusion that it was possible and , although hazardous , had a reasonable chance of success . |
| 16 | Each morning for the next ten days he bore this precious vessel to the examinations balls and poured a measured quantity of the contents on to pages of ruled quarto . |
| 17 | We should be finished with that in the next ten days . |
| 18 | At the end of two or three hours a character has emerged , one that he will refine over the next ten days , but it is essentially there now . |
| 19 | Ejecting a few birds we inspected the inside of the crude habitation where the men would live for the next ten days or more . |
| 20 | JOHN Major today kept the door open for a possible Cabinet reshuffle within the next ten days as Chancellor Norman Lamont 's Cabinet post looked more vulnerable by the hour . |
| 21 | Over the next ten days de Gaulle played a very dangerous and difficult game , in which he manipulated the threat of Operation Resurrection without overtly backing or overtly disavowing the army 's plans . |
| 22 | FORMER Armagh captain Jimmy Smyth has a two-fold ambition which he hopes to see fulfilled within the next ten days . |
| 23 | ‘ We have work to do and it is essential that there are no distractions , ’ says Coleman , ‘ I am happy the way our build-up has gone so far but the next ten days or so are obviously the most important in terms of morale and motivation . ’ |
| 24 | Tory agent Kathy Lever said : ‘ Our vote is holding up well and we will be going flat out over the next ten days to win over the undecided voters . ’ |
| 25 | Over the next ten days , Rangers have a league match with Hearts , a European tie in Belgium and the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup at Arbroath . |
| 26 | They lost by only seven runs to Yorkshire last week , and over the next ten days they will face Nottinghamshire , Northamptonshire and Glamorgan . |
| 27 | For the next ten days they set up camp at Etaples , spending their mornings being marched over dunes , their afternoons being instructed in gas warfare and their evenings being told by Captain Trentham the different ways they could die . |
| 28 | And the other one , we have n't started the work for yet , because now we 're starting into water , so , erm , in the next ten days we 'll do some work on water and that 's the water board . |
| 29 | well I would think if it could lodged during the course of the next ten days or so |
| 30 | If another launch attempt is not made in the next ten days , then it could face cancellation . |