Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] during the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It tells the story of an engineer who loses his job because of the effects of being gassed during the First World War . |
| 2 | The question of the truth of the Christian picture of the world has increasingly come to be raised during the last two hundred years . |
| 3 | Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’ |
| 4 | The blood tests have to be conducted during the 16th–18th weeks of the pregnancy , and therefore depend on the mother knowing , with some accuracy , the date of her last menstrual period . |
| 5 | As stated above , the samples of dementia sufferers were to be generated over a period of one year ( 1 April 1984–31 March 1985 ) ; and the development officers were to continue to provide their service for one further year ( until 31 March 1986 ) though no further sample members ( project clients in the case of the action sample ) were to be generated during the second year . |
| 6 | The second phase of the plan , to be implemented during the second half of the year , will see the company implementing 8209 bridging and router-based SDLC conversion on its 6400/6800 modular system . |
| 7 | The lavishness of specification is appropriate to a country which still , in spite of economic recession , is by most standards a very wealthy one , though it should be noted that the document is far from describing typical or current practice : this is what the two associations concerned regard as logical developments to be pursued during the next decade in line with the best available practice . |
| 8 | There were insufficient vehicles in the first delivery to work the whole service between Sutton and Croydon and several of the earlier 1–60 batch ex-L.U.T. trolleybuses , known as ‘ Diddlers ’ because of the clicking noise their contactors made , had to be used during the first few weeks . |
| 9 | Wheels made completely of iron began to be used during the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Several hundred thousand Spaniards and non-Spaniards had died on the battlefields of Spain between 1936 and 1939 ; at least 200,000 more were to be executed during the next few years , 2,000,000 would suffer imprisonment or forced labour , and millions more again faced a lifetime of discrimination for having fought on behalf of the Republic . |
| 11 | A few years ago Japanese-Americans were compensated for being interned during the second world war , and some ( mostly white ) people have begun to point out that blacks have yet to be compensated for centuries of slavery . |