Example sentences of "during the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CAMPOP 's researches have shown that during the 100 years after 1540 England 's population rose from about 2.75 millions to roughly 5 millions . |
| 2 | The most remarkable of these long-established families were the Boulters who had established no fewer than eight different households during the 100 years or so that they had lived in Wigston . |
| 3 | But , apparently , its availability in Eastern Europe during the late-Eighties helped hasten the collapse of Communism — which is certainly more of a revolutionary achievement than either of the other two music forms managed . |
| 4 | Broad money was dropped as a target because it gave completely misleading signals during the 1979-81 recession . |
| 5 | Some 2m jobs have been lost since 1990 , almost twice as many as during the 1979-81 recession . |
| 6 | First restored in Devon by Buckfastleigh-based volunteers and staff of the 80064 Locomotive Group from Barry scrapyard condition during the 1970's , the engine will provide a much needed boost to the SDR 's expanding loco fleet . |
| 7 | Bangkok was lowered by about 1.5 metres during the 1970's after groundwater beneath the city was pumped out . |
| 8 | There are only a few isolated examples of Jacobite riots or demonstrations in England during the 1690s , perhaps suggesting that Jacobite sentiment was not particularly widespread . |
| 9 | Although Eliab suffered serious losses in 1177 in a failed consortium to lend money to the Crown , and was briefly exiled from England during the 1180s , he returned from the Continent in 1186 on promise of a 2,000 mark fine , and resided thereafter in Norwich until his death in 1197 . |
| 10 | CS gas was used , against Home Office regulations , during the 1981 Toxteth riot , but has not been used since . |
| 11 | Francis Pym 's dismissal from the office of Foreign Secretary was widely reported in advance during the 1983 general election ; the dismissals of Patrick Jenkin at Environment and Peter Rees at the Treasury in September 1985 were extensively trailed over the summer ; the same was true of Mr Biffen 's dismissal in June 1987 . |
| 12 | Talking Disaster , Denis Healey 's nickname for Tony Benn during the 1983 general election |
| 13 | He had the audacity to suggest , during the 1983 general election , that the government might be better off with a modest majority , than with the landslide that Labour 's internal troubles seemed likely to produce . |
| 14 | During the 1983 election , Mail journalists objected to the newspaper 's coverage of the Labour Party and demanded that it be given a fairer representation . |
| 15 | Almost 9 per cent of the men aged between twenty and sixty-four resident in England and Wales during the 1983 survey reported that they were unemployed , and this total excluded those who were waiting to take up jobs . |
| 16 | During the 1983 — 7 Parliament two seats were won at by-elections but three were lost in the 1987 general election . |
| 17 | This trend continued in succeeding years so that during the three-quarters of a century between the first ( 1719 ) and the fifth ( 1795 ) official censuses , the Russian population of Siberia increased by almost two and a half times , from 169,000 adult males to 412,000 , at a time when the population of the empire as a whole less than doubled . |
| 18 | At some meetings during the twenties and thirties unofficial Roman Catholic observers were permitted . |
| 19 | Perhaps the most important single decision taken by the District during the twenties was to accept the Carnegie Trust 's offer to support financially the appointment of a tutor for the development of rural adult education . |
| 20 | During the Twenties , following the neglect of the First World War period , three-quarters of the Blackpool tram track had to be relaid , and this led to extensive disruption of services and vocal criticisms of the Tramway Department . |
| 21 | During the Twenties and Thirties the tram service gradually expanded until , by August Bank Holiday 1933 , every one of the 156 cars was on the road . |
| 22 | The result of his intransigence was a refusal by the Council during the Twenties , to sanction the number of new trams required for modernisation . |
| 23 | Everyone said that the priest had encouraged many of the burnings during the twenties . |
| 24 | His relative impoverishment had proceeded rapidly during the twenties . |
| 25 | Powerful drama about the political turmoil in Ireland during the twenties when the British Prime Minister Lloyd George met with Michael Collins and Eamon de Valera leaders of Sinn Fein . |
| 26 | Crawford was still in camp during the 1918 season , and was able to perform great feats for Wellington . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no doubt ’ , wrote an LNU MP of his constituents during the 1935 Election campaign , that ‘ they 're quite prepared for the Navy to have to fight . ’ |
| 28 | It was during the 1820s that Ebley Mill was also rebuilt . |
| 29 | Both were offered for sale during the 1820s although , by the 1850s , they were apparently run together . |
| 30 | Real interest in the tradition was actually waning ; during the 1820s great difficulty was experienced in procuring money for a bull and the last Christmas run occurred in 1831 . |