Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] during the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Pham told delegates that there had been a rapid increase in export turnover during the first half of 1990 , but that the production of export goods was threatened by the major socio-economic changes in Eastern Europe , which had forced some countries to cancel contracts , and that " the dilatory payment and overdue debts to the export goods manufacturers fail to encourage the production of export goods " .
2 Yet by 1914 agriculture was firmly in second place to industry in the American economy and although farmers enjoyed a boom period during the First World War , their problems were to become clear in the 1920s .
3 As shown by Table III , the daily food intake and body weight gain during the first week on the diet were similar in rats fed either the oleic , linoleic , or eicosapentaenoic acid supplemented diet .
4 I have a very clear recollection of Nigel de Grey , sometime Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division during the First World War , giving us a lecture on security which was psychologically scarifying , as indeed it was meant to be .
5 A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) shows that non-oil commodity prices in dollar terms reached their lowest level in the post-Second World War period during the first quarter of 1987 .
6 This would include test and examination results during the first year , continuous assessment marks and evaluations , form tutors ' reports , results of any standardised tests such as those provided by National Foundation for Education Research ( NFER ) and , in appreciating the continuity of education , indicators and assessments from the primary school reports .
7 PERINATAL MORTALITY RATION — The annual number of late fetal deaths plus infant deaths during the early neonatal period ( sometimes infant deaths during the first month of life ) per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same year .
8 Downland Housing Association will be making their selection interviews during the first week in May .
9 They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market .
10 A TOTAL of 391 planning applications were received by Ceredigion District Council during the first quarter of 1993 , a substantial rise on last year .
11 They also used this network of service engineers to provide the backup for the warranty work during the first year of the machine 's use .
12 This was used to make comma shaped charms ( magatama ) of the kind placed with burials of the Tomb Period during the first half of the first millennium A.D. both in Japan itself and in Korea .
13 It is a formidable feat of timing , comparable to a clever trick that was used in some fighter planes during the First World War .
14 East Germany shows a sharp fall in the birth rate during the First World War and after the Second and the effect of the Second World War on the males of fighting age .
15 When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " .
16 ‘ You can not possibly imagine just how beautiful you look ! ’ said the pilot of the Meteor chaseplane during the first flight in March 1969 of Concorde 001 from Toulouse .
17 The mean height increment during the first year after diagnosis was 4.4 ( 2.3 ) cm .
18 The NHS Trust application is one of 11 being launched within the Northern Regional Health Authority during the first fortnight in May .
19 As priority was given to the undergraduate course in information retrieval during the first year and other conditions remained nearly constant , any changes in the pattern of the use of Chalmers Library during that time could be attributed to the effects of the course of instruction .
20 Was there utility clothing during the First World War ?
21 Commenting on its much improved figures ( see page seven ) , Cray Research Inc said order backlogs during the first quarter of rose to $381m from $354m in the same period a year ago , adding to positive overall quarterly earnings : John Carlson , the new chairman and chief executive , said that the contract value of orders signed was some $124m compared with just $86m in the first quarter of last year .
22 In the early testings with the Yamaha boys last weekend McWilliams was unflappable even though he had gearbox problems during the first session .
23 Increased demand for its road , rail and sea container fleets during the first half helped boost the latest figures .
24 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 .
25 In spite of these absences and the decline of country house building during the First World War , the Twenties saw a steady stream of commissioned work from the Lutyens drawing board .
26 Special problems are associated with calculations of infant mortality because of the rapid decline in the death rate during the first year of life .
27 Depending on the school , a full term 's work of ten to twelve weeks may be spent on one production project during the first term , with either a workshop or text study area at the end of the period .
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