Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun sg] during the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its working past laid the foundations of a good beef breed and it was improved for that specific purpose during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , by selection rather than crossing ; it was said ( rather coldly ) to ‘ die well ’ , that is , to yield a lot of meat in the best cuts . |
| 2 | In other words , education accounted for at least 12 per cent of the total economic growth during the first period and 23 per cent during the second ; if the overlap between educational improvements in labour and advances in knowledge is not complete , then the contribution of education to economic growth is higher for both periods . |
| 3 | There was some seasonal improvement during the second three months of the year , but firm evidence of sustained recovery in the housing market is yet to appear . |
| 4 | Briefly , they showed that the use of continuous electronic fetal heart rate monitoring caused higher rates of medical intervention including caesarean section during the first stage of labour and instrumental vaginal delivery during the second . |
| 5 | Forces loyal to Aoun engaged in another major confrontation during the first half of 1990 when they fought for control of Christian East Beirut against Samir Geaga 's Lebanese Forces ( LF ) militia . |
| 6 | Pares published extensively in a series of monographs illuminating various aspects of his chosen field , the role of the West Indies in the development of the British Empire , and the determination of British international policy during the eighteenth century : his pioneering investigations ranged widely over questions of war and trade and international law . |
| 7 | This growing feeling during the first half of 1937 that the forces of fascism were very much on the offensive and that the initiative was gradually slipping away from the Republican cause was abruptly and symbolically confirmed in July 1937 . |
| 8 | German secular music during the second decade of the century felt Italian influence , but it was the influence of Giovanni Gabrieli , not of the monodists . |
| 9 | We can point to Milton being retained as an approved poet of high literary culture during the next century when other dissenting writing of Milton 's age circulated among groups increasingly only at the margins of political life . |
| 10 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 11 | Llangollen — In this small town , astride the Dee , is held the Annual International Eisteddfod during the first week in July . |
| 12 | The Soviet media responded with the assertion that ‘ this is evidently not inevitable ’ and pointed to official Turkish neutrality during the Second World War . |
| 13 | Gow was for many years a close associate of Margaret Thatcher , the Prime Minister , having been her parliamentary private secretary during the first four years of her premiership in 1979-83 , and a member of her government as Minister of Housing in 1983-85 and a Minister of State at the Treasury from September to November 1985 . |
| 14 | The National Birthrate Commission during the First World War noted that many doctors were advising women to space their births but refusing to tell them how . |
| 15 | The overstretch of the regular army did not become a major political issue during the last of years of the Conservative Government ( then under Douglas Home , who succeeded Macmillan in October 1963 ) : it was a legacy left to Labour when they came to power in October 1964 . |
| 16 | Despite Gregory 's account , the Merovingians can be seen as a dynasty which cultivated a complex political ideology during the sixth century . |
| 17 | This was the most spectacular humiliation suffered by any major European state during the seventeenth century ; and Louis did not hesitate to turn the knife in the wound . |
| 18 | Underlying Leavis 's reformed discourse on English is the sense that a major cultural transformation during the seventeenth century is at the root of the subsequent debasing modernizing process . |
| 19 | The closeness of the Anglo-American special relationship during the Second World War boded well for a continuing post-war partnership , in which Britain would be able to influence US policy in a mutually beneficial way ; and latent Soviet hostility , which became apparent in London sooner than in Washington , was lessened by the assumed technological backwardness of Russia , and by the devastation she had suffered at the hands of the Germans . |
| 20 | Wallich returned to India in 1838 as assistant surgeon in the Indian Army and saw considerable active service during the next nineteen years , taking part in the Sutlej and Punjab campaigns of 1842 and 1847 and acting as field surgeon during the Sonthal rebellion of 1855–6 . |
| 21 | By comparison , the mean global temperature during the last ice age is estimated to have been 4 ° C colder than it is today . |
| 22 | It was replaced with the elegant stone-built building during the 19th century . |
| 23 | Such is the mood of pessimism here it is hard to find anyone who believes the All Blacks , having won their seven matches in Wales , will face any significant threat during the next fortnight . |
| 24 | Sponsors of the bill suggested that the cost of the latest extension would be met through the use of $2,200 million left unspent during the last fiscal year and of $500 million from an accelerated collection of taxes from large corporations . |
| 25 | Here , the concomitant decreases in salt intake , gastric cancer , and hypertensive cardiovascular disease during the twentieth century in most industrialised countries are noteworthy but fall short of establishing causality . |
| 26 | In so doing I depart somewhat from studies of working-class involvement in the formal political sphere during the twentieth century . |