Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] during the first [adj] " 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 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance , the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939 . |