1.   After getting over the shock of the new Beijing my first few days, the hassles of the old Beijing quickly came to haunt me.

2.   But even during those horrifying first few days, no one imagined that six weeks later the girls would still be facing daily abuse.

3.   I thoroughly enjoyed the first days of practice.

4.   Murphy knew on the first the day of practice that his time with the Oilers was going to be a remarkable experience.

5.   So the December billing period stretched into the first few days of January.

6.   The panic buying and long lines of the first days of the crisis are a long gone, but for many people, life has not returned to normal.

7.   Those were the good old days, those first days of the season.

8.   Tim Bogar started at first that day, Brogna started the other times.

9.   Watching the first days of Speaker-in-waiting Newt Gingrich is a little like watching the start of a buffalo stampede.

10.   In a TV interview that helped her husband weather the first days of the crisis, Hillary Rodham Clinton was asked what would happen if Clinton was proven wrong.