Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] during the [num ord] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Yonder , the town , had grown enormously during the last twenty years . |
| 3 | A. The number of people in the larger cities has been growing rapidly during the last 50 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance , the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939 . |
| 10 | Several young adults hatched there during the last two breeding seasons live there as well . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | the rate of change in society has increased dramatically during the last two centuries . |
| 13 | Many farmers even in DRAs are wealthy on paper simply because land prices have increased dramatically during the last thirty years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 19 | Eating habits in the West have changed dramatically during the last ten to twenty years . |