Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] during the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nguyen Van Linh , the former general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) , visited China during the first half of May . |
| 2 | ( He had previously given assurances that he would return to face charges of slandering Mazowiecki during the first round . ) |
| 3 | It moved from Greenwich in 1933 to new premises built on an estate provided by ship owner Gifford Sherman Reade in gratitude for the work of the Royal Navy in safeguarding shipping during the First World War . |
| 4 | They 're trying to interrupt a speaker to give information during the first round of the World Student Debating Championships . |
| 5 | Jeremy started school during the first week in January , and she was glad to see him engrossed in his own school affairs and friendships again . |
| 6 | His funeral took place during the First Test at Trent Bridge , with South Africa the tourists : play was halted as a tribute to the man whose valet helped him to contrive county cricket 's most amazing victory . |
| 7 | This is not to say that it was the consequence of the rise of Fordism ( i.e. , the changes that were taking place during the first half of the 20th century in capitalist methods of production ) . |
| 8 | The social welfare regulation which is considered here … took shape during the first part of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | The greatest changes in sleep in humans take place during the first year of life , with the normal one-year-old showing essentially the same patterns of sleep as the adult , although in different proportions of stages , and with a recognizably different EEG . |
| 10 | This system no longer had quite such a regional character as it had had in the 1890s because local banks were already becoming part of the national system of clearing banks which was to take shape during the First World War . |
| 11 | Of the 216 patients discharged in 1989–90 , none became vagrants during the first year of follow up ( J Leff et al , unpublished study ) . |
| 12 | One senior official with a ringside seat at the traumas of winter 1973–4 contemplated resignation during the first week of March so that he could tell the country that Heath was a serious man and had been a worthy prime minister . |