Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] during the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sophisticated systems of electro-chemical replacement and depletion gilding and silvering developed by Andean metallurgists during the first millennium before Christ were designed first and foremost as symbols of rank , power and religious force . |
| 2 | True enough , the famous set of Roman values — fides , constantia , severitas , gravitas , dignitas , auctoritas , etc. etc. — was discovered for the first time by German professors during the First World War , and helped their pupils to mark time while Hitler was deciding what to do with the classics . |
| 3 | Midland believes that following 40,000 inquiries for First Direct in October , it will open 4,000 to 5,000 accounts during the first month . |
| 4 | We can take two people from each yacht , and course members join us afloat from 10am to 5pm each day for 4 days during the first week of a Villa-Flotilla holiday . |
| 5 | The Pazyryk ( or Altai ) carpet , as it is known , is of crucial importance ; not only does it confirm the existence of highly sophisticated hand-knotted rugs during the first millennium BC , it also strengthens the belief that rug-making was widespread through the Middle East and Central Asia , because the design is an almost exact replica of one found on a paving slab in the Assyrian royal palace at Nineveh , nearly three thousand miles away . |
| 6 | THERE is a respectable case which can be made for John Major 's unhappy decision yesterday to refuse posthumous pardons for any of the 307 British soldiers executed for military offences during the First World War . |
| 7 | Since infant mortality takes its heaviest toll on new-born babies during the first month of life , special attentions is given in mortality analyses to mortality in the neonatal period . |
| 8 | A white , descended from Corsican immigrants , Cipriani had sharpened his latent powers of leadership in the prolonged fight to get equal treatment for West Indian soldiers during the first World War . |
| 9 | Nutritional treatment was used in eight patients ( seven elemental diet , one total parenteral nutrition ) for two to four months during the first year . |
| 10 | The group opened 14 new supermarkets during the first half of its financial year including two sites in Knotty Ash and Upton which have created more than 500 local new jobs between them . |
| 11 | Another notable resident then was the Honourable Thomas Walpole , the second son of Lord Walpole of Wotterton , Norfolk , and the younger brother of the great Sir Robert Walpole , who had been Prime Minister for twenty-two years during the first half of the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | The Bristol area had over two inches of rainfall in two days during the first week of January , and that was followed by one of the wettest and stormiest periods for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ Finzi lost several close relatives during the First World War , and I think that his pacifist stance developed while he was still a young man , and of course , so many influential writers and musicians had lost their lives in the trenches — take Arthur Butterworth , for example . ’ |
| 14 | A splinter killed the commander of III Corps Field Artillery , brave old General Lotterer who had seldom been far from his forward guns during the first phase of the battle . |
| 15 | He defended the Masai 's right not to go to school , and opposed their forcible recruitment into the King 's African Rifles during the First World War . |
| 16 | The manner in which some of the practices of arts education began to change from didactic teaching towards more creative approaches during the first half of the twentieth century would support the view that it was the inspirational qualities of recommended change which secured their diffusion . |
| 17 | The opposition vehemently condemned the decision and maintained that the government was legally obliged to go ahead with the local polls during the first half of the year . |