Example sentences of "[num ord] three days " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the first three days she takes a purificatory bath , and then is given a complete mini-bridal trousseau by her father or , in his absence , her brother . |
| 2 | For the first three days of her monthly period she is segregated in a solitary place and is not allowed to touch anybody or anything lest she pollutes it . |
| 3 | Her sexuality was supposed to be greatly intensified during the first three days and on the fourth day she was supposed to be the most fertile for conception . |
| 4 | For the first three days after a foal is born it is usually fairly accepting of the world around it , and it is of considerable advantage to us to make use of these three days to teach the foal that we are friendly and trustworthy . |
| 5 | However , if we neglect to make use of these first three days of a foal 's life in this way , we are likely to find that the foal becomes suspicious of us . |
| 6 | The grandmother of a Cornish smallholder 's family would stay the first three days of each week ‘ to help my mother to do the washing and buttermaking … and to help to do the mending ; ’ and when the children were not at school they would walk the mile and a half back to granny 's own ‘ little thatched cottage . ’ |
| 7 | On 26 March the junta decided that the invasion would take place on one of the first three days in April . |
| 8 | we may safely say that nothing so remarkable as the scene of Westminster-Hall during the first three days of this week , had ever been known of by architects . |
| 9 | Month led for the first three days — starting the final day six shots clear . |
| 10 | A further ten to 15 per cent reduction on many half-price sale items during the first three days . |
| 11 | In Britain the biggest box-office hit was Batman Returns with Pounds 2.77 million in the first three days . |
| 12 | He told me that the first three days were an agony , thirst being the greatest torture , then slowly the body reversed its patterns and you got used to it . |
| 13 | Watched by encouragingly large crowds — a total of 57,684 , with over 13,000 on each of the first three days — this match was a reminder of much that is good about Test cricket . |
| 14 | He added that he had received thirty phone calls from the media enquiring about ad placement in the first three days after the ruling . |
| 15 | The royal couple found that seclusion at Broadlands , Earl Mountbatten 's home in Hampshire , where they spent the first three days of their honeymoon , followed by a leisurely Mediterranean cruise on board the royal yacht Britannia which they joined at Gibraltar . |
| 16 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |
| 17 | Over the first three days he was watched increasingly closely , as it appeared that he may have been sleeping during the early evening when no recordings were being made , and during the nights his wife seemed to be doing her best to keep him awake . |
| 18 | Military staff ensured that they had no sleep for the first three days , after which short periods of sleep ( 4 hours ) were permitted every twenty-four hours . |
| 19 | Pressplan Travel has arranged a special inclusive tour to cover the first three days of the fair . |
| 20 | In nature , so to say , chicks soon learn — within the first three days after hatching at the latest — who their mother is , and follow her thereafter . |
| 21 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |
| 22 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
| 23 | The mean values were considerably increased above the corresponding reference intervals during the first three days in the intensive care unit . |
| 24 | For the first three days we were locked in the classrooms and never saw the light of day . ’ |
| 25 | IN the first three days of 1993 , Japan 's National Police Agency reported record numbers of visitors at the country 's Shinto shrines. 1992 had been such a bad year that people were keen to pray for better fortunes in the months ahead . |
| 26 | England 's players had a lazy rest day today , many of them reporting that they felt drained by playing in the heat and humidity of the first three days . |
| 27 | Jos Lansink 's first visit to The Horse of the Year Show could reward him with a Jaguar car , if he can maintain the form shown on the last three days . |
| 28 | Somehow , in those last three days , the loathing he 'd developed for his father faded . |
| 29 | But time and expense means I have to economise and therefore I choose to bait every other day except for the last three days when I will bait on each of them . |
| 30 | The extraordinary circumstances of the last three days have bound us together for a minimum of eighteen hours a day , breakfast , lunch and dinner , and we 've got to know each other well . |