Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those dependent on state benefits have fared particularly badly during the 1980s , eligibility conditions having been made more stringent and the rates of many of the benefits having been cut . |
| 2 | He was there too , but he behaved extraordinarily bravely during the Yugoslavian campaign . |
| 3 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 4 | Even if we were ultimately victorious at a public inquiry , the church would have suffered so grievously during the Waiting period that a large part of its artistic quality and integrity would have been lost . |
| 5 | A key point to note is that every stage of processing was able to affect the score of a reading ; thus , for example , a reading that scored more highly during the first ( semantic conflation ) phrase could later be overtaken by another which allowed easier reference resolution . |
| 6 | South Shields , St Helens and Birkenhead all shot up quickly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The truth came out again during the 1985 visit of the Israeli President to Dublin . |
| 8 | The Polytechnic of Wales has grown very considerably during the present decade . |
| 9 | The unit operated very effectively during the 1980s on the Namibia/Angola border against infiltrating bands of SWAPO guerrillas who were attempting to destabilise the country by ambush and assassination . |
| 10 | DET expenditure on black education has certainly risen very significantly during the 1980s , with per capita expenditure for all educational levels rising from 176 rand per pupil ( 1988 rand ) in 1980/81 to 595 rand in 1987/88 , though much of this increase had been taken up by the rising bill for teachers ' salaries . |
| 11 | Inquiries among certain dealers in this country have established that while Saatchi has been selling extremely heavily during the past six months he has actually bought very little British art . |
| 12 | Sotheby 's expert Melanie Clore emphasises that Matisse has alway been an artist for discerning collectors and was never speculated in even during the 1988–90 period like Picasso and Renoir . |
| 13 | Relations deteriorated still further during the late 1960s . |
| 14 | They then moved west to a new holding area at Bir Zalten , sixty miles south of the German positions at El Agheila , which had been recced by Mike Sadler who had flown up there during the first week in November . |
| 15 | Emburey has played only once during the past month , bowling 20 overs for 53 runs — but no wickets — against the Rest of India at Vishakhapatnam . |
| 16 | And this I I find is one of the helpful things and when you get together not during the actual talking the actual session but er . |
| 17 | Not only had dialogue with the French communist party on this highly sensitive issue rapidly degenerated into counter-productive name calling , but also Sartre himself had been gradually moving progressively closer during the late 1940s and early 1950s to the politics of the PCF . |
| 18 | According to official statistics , between 1980 and 1987 30 million primary and middle-school ‘ dropouts ’ had been recorded with the numbers rising more rapidly during the previous few years ( CD 7.12. 88 ) . |
| 19 | People wake more easily during the light paradoxical sleep , and take longer to fall into the more restful deeper orthodox sleep , especially if they are under stress or in an unfamiliar environment . |
| 20 | She never glanced up once during the entire lesson . |
| 21 | For example , outbreeding is much more likely to occur than brother-sister incest because of the apparently innate rule that individuals raised closely together during the first six years of life are inhibited from full sexual intercourse at maturity . |
| 22 | Some models will drop very rapidly during the early part of the descent while the main rotor winds up to a suitable speed . |
| 23 | Margaret continued to cope fairly well during the next year . |
| 24 | But his luxury home , complete with a trout farm and stables , is a million miles from the council prefab he was brought up in during the '50s . |
| 25 | In the end , I refused Toby 's offer of a drink , and we agreed to sleep on the problem and talk again sometime during the following day . |
| 26 | This latest period has , in fact , seen its slowest growth rates in those counties which grew most rapidly during the Industrial Revolution . |
| 27 | Money incomes actually fell quite sharply during the early 1930s owing to a combination of falling prices and declining real incomes , but money growth proved much more resilient . |
| 28 | Occupational sick pay schemes have increased very substantially during the last twenty years . |
| 29 | Trade unions , in fact , did rather well during the 1930s . |
| 30 | They did so gradually during the 1960s — raising the share of cash flow taken by net interest payments from 5% in 1960 to 15% in 1970 — but then cut back . |