Example sentences of "[num ord] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young couple in the first blissful days of their union needed to be alone together . |
| 2 | Perhaps the most confused man in the Yorkshire Dales during the first frantic days after the first transmission was the Baldersdale postman . |
| 3 | Even when relatives were on hand , the first critical days could be horribly disorganised , as Kurt Weinburg can confirm : |
| 4 | During the first post-operative days a nurse performed catheter care 4 hourly to help prevent infection . |
| 5 | Xanthe looked out of the taxi windows at the throng swinging down the pavement , the broad plane leaves shifting and the jackets still unfastened , panels loose , in these first mild days of autumn . |
| 6 | A female , instead of manufacturing the maximum number of eggs that can be created from her bodily reserves , may produce rather fewer but give each one a better chance of survival by supplying it with food in some way , so that it is sustained during its first difficult days . |
| 7 | That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her . |
| 8 | As the only new employees among so many , we were keen to help each other in those first uncertain days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | From the United States came reports of the battles on campus and in the south , and writers like jazz critic and Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff ; from London came a critique of Wilson 's first stumbling days of power , a concern with the new politics of ecology , the black movement , Vietnam , Algeria , Cuba by then in the sixth year of revolutionary rule — the seizure of Burroughs 's The Naked Lunch by the Director of Public Prosecutions , R. D. Laing on ‘ Violence Masquerading as Love ’ , the campaign to legalize marijuana . |
| 11 | High blue skies above a fragment of one of Harry 's last carefree days , when Profitis Ilias and Heather 's disappearance lay in wait but unforeseen , nearly a week in the future . |
| 12 | After divorce from her first husband , she married Brian Youlden , who has been a tower of strength in these last sad days . |
| 13 | Even the Emperor himself was struck by this outcry , for in the last remaining days of peace his every appearance on the streets , driving from the Tuileries to Saint Cloud , provoked cries of ‘ A bas la Prusse ! ’ , |
| 14 | In the following months he defeated Lord Franks in the election of a Chancellor for Oxford University : he was still in office in 1983 , and still using in public ceremonies the Latin pronunciation he had learned at Eton in the last Edwardian days . |
| 15 | Though , in the last desperate days of February , it may hardly have seemed the most dramatic , undoubtedly the gravest problem confronting Pétain was one of communications . |
| 16 | Theda 's hands rubbed furiously at one of the posts of the bed in the second of the chambers she had tackled in the last unnumbered days . |
| 17 | Meanwhile I give below the dates of the next open days at Larksoken so that as many of us as possible can attend and strenuously put our case against nuclear power during the question time which normally precedes the actual tour of the station . ’ |
| 18 | About 600 people visit the garden every year — the next open days are September the 12th and the 3rd of October . |