Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [verb] during the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian delegation failed to progress during the seventh round . |
| 2 | In this chapter we show first how the age structure of Britain 's population has changed during the twentieth century , and how it is likely to change in the century 's final years and beyond . |
| 3 | Further evidence continued to emerge during the second half of 1989 that the world was becoming gradually warmer . |
| 4 | The percentage of young people staying on in full-time education after the legal minimum leaving age has increased during the last decade , as Figure 12.1 shows . |
| 5 | His voice had changed during the last few words and she pushed him hard against the end of the settle as she said , ‘ No , they wo n't come running , but have you ever thought of you doin' the askin' ? |
| 6 | No miller was allowed to buy or sell grain or flour except surplus toll corn until after the reign of Elizabeth I and although the influence of the soke began to wane during the seventeenth century , toll-in-kind was not replaced by a monetary charge until an act of 1796 . |
| 7 | In the Dehra Dun Valley some 16 per cent of the forest cover has disappeared during the last 100 years ( J F Richards 1987 ) . |
| 8 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 9 | Swahili began to spread during the nineteenth century . |