Example sentences of "[be] [verb] during the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 2 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 3 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 4 | She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … ! |
| 5 | A characteristic of automatic performance is an apparent loss of memory for what has been done during the previous few moments . |
| 6 | Significant changes have been made during the past few months . |
| 7 | Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly . |
| 8 | Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and … |
| 9 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |
| 10 | In our Galaxy , only four have been seen during the last thousand years : in 1006 , 1054 , 1572 and 1604 , but there is no knowing when we will see another . |
| 11 | South African breeders are now concentrating on increasing its size and weight for age and it has been exported during the past 80 years to most beef-producing countries , especially in southern and eastern Africa . |
| 12 | Yet in 1988 , the management consortium sold the company to Volvo of Sweden for £15 million claiming that the business had been restructured during the previous two years , but that the ‘ key to success in this business is to be a world player ’ . |
| 13 | At a Sept. 5 news conference Afewerki accused France , Egypt and Saudi Arabia of fostering " conflict on the borders and the blackmail we have been facing during the past three months " . |
| 14 | According to EPS figures released on May 28 , a total of 12,627 recontras and 9,278 recompas had been demobilized during the first two phases and 22,197 infantry weapons and 215 support weapons had been currently destroyed . |
| 15 | The second criticism is that though public expenditure and public employment have been reduced during the last five years , this has not resulted in any upsurge of employment in the marketed sector . |
| 16 | Government ministers hope the equipment , which will be installed during the 1992/93 financial year , will play a vital role in the battle against cancer . |
| 17 | This is one of 14 petrochemical plants to be built during the current Chinese five year plan . |
| 18 | This has required the Borough of Monmouth to identify land on which 5,500 new homes can be built during the next fifteen years . |
| 19 | The statement added : ‘ Jason 's scientific advisers do not concur with this view and therefore a formal request will be made during the next few days for this non-disclosed information . |
| 20 | The precise date and location will be decided during the next few months . |
| 21 | ‘ I feel we have a strong base for an ongoing quality improvement programme and with the commitment of all at Precision , positive results should be seen during the next 12 months . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In order to provide the designer with such a tool that can be used during the early conceptual stage , effort has been concentrated on attempting to use an existing CAD system to synthesize the motion of mechanism trains . |
| 24 | Intercourse is safe throughout pregnancy , unless you had a previous miscarriage , in which case it should be avoided during the first 14 weeks and avoided altogether if you have a history of miscarrying . |
| 25 | The question of the truth of the Christian picture of the world has increasingly come to be raised during the last two hundred years . |
| 26 | LEGISLATION TO curb wildcat strikes will be introduced during the coming parliamentary session , Norman Fowler , Secretary of State for Employment , announced yesterday . |
| 27 | It is anticipated that all overseas land and buildings will be revalued during the next two years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The NARA-WACC assistant will be appointed during the next few months . |
| 30 | The issue of " criminous clerks " began to be discussed during the early twelfth century , and by the 1150s in England , there was some acceptance that such men could be tried only by an ecclesiastical tribunal . |