Example sentences of "first 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 .
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