He was afraid Confederate forces in Virginia might try to capture Washington in the first days of the war.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

During the first days of his administration, he listed the things he planned to do as president.

VOA: special.2009.03.05

"UNRWA is helping us." "I remember the first days of the closure when we had no flour, the U.N.gave us flour and food.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

The media and political observers have spent a lot of time examining Mister Obama's first one hundred days in office.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

The tradition of marking the first one hundred days of a new president began with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

VOA: special.2009.05.02

He was sick only two days. They found him the morning of the first day in his room downstairs helpless with pain.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

One story says it was first used during the early days of the telephone to tell an operator that a message had been received.

VOA: special.2010.02.28

It would be the first in a series of battles known as the Seven Days Campaign.

VOA: special.2009.09.17

The first letters sent by Pony Express from California took ten days to reach Missouri.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

Her book "Some of the Days of Everett Anderson" became the first in a series of books about a young African-American boy growing up in the city.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

Those first days when Helen Keller developed the ability to talk were wonderful.

VOA: special.2009.11.08

At first, visits were limited to 20 days out of the year.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

"In the early days, the first few cases in the U.S. had recovered by the time they were diagnosed.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29

Jackson says in the first few days of the Olympics his business has sold almost three times the merchandise as at Christmas.

VOA: standard.2010.02.17

They say the first shipment from the warehouse should arrive in Haiti in a few days.

VOA: standard.2010.01.18

Mr.Obama delivered his first commencement address as president to the University of Arizona several days ago.

VOA: standard.2009.05.17

The first eight days of the Winter Games in Vancouver have had plenty of controversy.

VOA: standard.2010.02.21

On his way home from his first official visit to the United States, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari stopped in London for two days of discussions.

VOA: standard.2009.05.13