Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , this process has developed considerably during the late twentieth century . |
| 2 | However , while these dollar values are better than dinar values for the years up to 1983 , they are still not satisfactory , both for the reason given above and because the real value of the dollar has fluctuated considerably during the past ten years . |
| 3 | It is remarkable that the present Government have never reflected upon the great increase in public expenditure , and the substantial change in its pattern , which has come about during the past five years in consequence of their policies in the field of the social services . |
| 4 | He certainly underestimates the effective recruiting campaigns that the CPS has carried out during the past year and he seems to have ignored the fact that , in order to carry out its work as well as possible , its total manpower requirement has been increased . |
| 5 | It has however been the subject of much criticism , which has grown substantially during the second half of the present century . |
| 6 | Although The Art Newspaper has written extensively during the last few months about the problems the international art trade will be facing in just over half a year from now , I nevertheless want to bring to your attention some other serious difficulties which the art market will have to confront , issues which are quite separate from the general economic malaise affecting business at the moment . |
| 7 | Unemployment , in contrast , has risen sharply during the latter part of the period , in terms of both numbers and rate ( see Figure 2.1(b) and ( c ) ) . |
| 8 | The job losses are a further milestone in the decline of County Durham 's textile industry which has suffered severely during the current economic recession . |
| 9 | The idea has got about during the past three weeks that there is really not much difference between the parties , give or take the odd howl of anguish from the higher-tax-paying classes . |
| 10 | the rate of change in society has increased dramatically during the last two centuries . |
| 11 | Moreover the pace of technological change has increased steadily during the latter half of the twentieth century so that the farm worker in turn has had to become more adaptable to successive new innovations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The number of police officers has increased enormously during the past 10 years . |
| 14 | We attempt to assist , however , and the total number of people who have been helped through our sheltered employment programme has increased substantially during the past 10 years . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Bryan Keith-Lucas has described how during the nineteenth century the local government franchise gradually became based upon general Acts of Parliament rather than on a ‘ medley of jurisdiction and authority ’ deriving from the common law and local Acts ( Keith-Lucas 1952:221 ) . |
| 19 | The proportion of urban dwellers has changed little during the present century , though in reality over 90 per cent of the population now effectively lives an urban form of existence . |
| 20 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 21 | Our review of the further education sector in Wales reveals a situation which has changed considerably during the past twelve years or so . |
| 22 | The general standard of joiner work achieved by this company has improved considerably during the past four years . |
| 23 | Insiders admit that by both external and internal measures , it has failed badly during the 1980s to live up to its promise . |
| 24 | This story has lasted well during the past two millennia and many people still believe it , so that tom-cats are always kept carefully away from nursing mother cats and their young kittens , in case the urge to commit lust-inspired infanticide overcomes them . |
| 25 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 26 | incredibly er you know worsened basically during the nineteen thirties |
| 27 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 28 | Had Louis been less concerned with sex , Plekhanov suggests , France might well have fared differently during the Seven Years War . |
| 29 | It speculated that some 20,000 deaths might have come about during the forced evacuations from Moslem villages , and estimated that the Bosnian Serbs had already largely completed their plans for the creation of homogenous Serb-populated areas . |
| 30 | ‘ Is it totally impossible for her to have slipped home during the critical time ? ’ |