Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] during the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 3 | NCD claims to have shipped 25.9% of the 96,610 X-terminals thought to have been installed worldwide during the first six months of this year . |
| 4 | ‘ Most of the children came in during the first two days and our helplines were flooded with calls , but they appear to have calmed down now . ’ |
| 5 | Yonder , the town , had grown enormously during the last twenty years . |
| 6 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 7 | Will he take a personal interest in stopping this scandalous dumping and make sure that the overshoot is clawed back during the next two years , the time remaining to the EC-Chinese trade agreement ? |
| 8 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 9 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 10 | Work on the drift deposits of the Livingston and Falkirk areas in central Scotland indicate that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 11 | The distribution of raised marine sediments and associated well-marked shorelines reveal that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 12 | Again there was a trend to increasing size , and they ultimately became the predominant land animal , expanding territorially during the last 70 million years of Paleozoic history and preying on the abundance of insects . |
| 13 | Courier , who had not played well during the first two sets , said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits . |
| 14 | By the late 1930s , the position had improved somewhat , but unemployment soared again during the first two years of the Second World War , when about a quarter of the membership found itself unemployed.29 For these single women in their 40s and 50s , it was not immediately easy to find war work , for instance in munitions factories , nor were they necessarily eager to do so . |
| 15 | After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance , the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939 . |
| 16 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 17 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 18 | Several young adults hatched there during the last two breeding seasons live there as well . |
| 19 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 20 | The level of owner occupation in Britain has increased rapidly during the last 30 years to the point where nearly two out of every three households either own or are buying their own home . |
| 21 | the rate of change in society has increased dramatically during the last two centuries . |
| 22 | Many farmers even in DRAs are wealthy on paper simply because land prices have increased dramatically during the last thirty years . |
| 23 | The number of designated clean air zones has increased steadily during the last 25 years , and Table 15–1 shows the dramatic reduction in smoke pollution in the UK . |
| 24 | Lunar cartography improved steadily during the next 200 years , culminating in a masterpiece of observation and delineation produced by the German astronomers Wilhelm Beer and Johann Mädler in 1837 . |
| 25 | To make the needle fit the groove , the disc contained abrasive material , so the tip would be ground down during the first two or three revolutions . |
| 26 | Builders move in during the next two weeks and work should be complete in 20 weeks , he said . |
| 27 | In that log book , which he showed me later , was the name , port and country of origin , of every ship that had passed through during the last eight and a half years , together with her age and condition , her destination , and of course the name of the captain and details of the cargo . |
| 28 | But if the negotiators do allow them to fail after all , or if the United States Congress rejects any compromise that may be worked out during the next two months , the effects will be disastrous . |
| 29 | If one of the wardens should die during his term of office , and this has happened twice during the last twenty years , another of the names will be drawn out . |
| 30 | Prosecutions for abortion doubled between 1900 and 1910 and doubled again during the next twenty years , but this may merely indicate more vigilance on the part of the authorities rather than increasing incidence . |