Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [vb pp] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The County Council 's own homes has improved during the past year . |
| 2 | How much money has been spent and how many animals have suffered during the last eight years ? |
| 3 | The form that literary studies had taken during the second half of the nineteenth century , positivism , was , as we saw in the Introduction , largely based on the genetic approach ; critics , or rather scholars , concentrated their energies on uncovering the sources and genesis of particular works , and the role of biography , history and history of ideas in these genetic studies obviously reduced the importance of literature itself in literary scholarship . |
| 4 | However , many things had happened during the two years since she had been told that her mother had died of the fever and that , prior to this , she had not been allowed to see her in case she should catch it and spread it further . |
| 5 | Case studies of three examples of corporate reorganisation consider the way in which corporate structures have changed during the last two decades , and the implications of this for the geography of service production . |
| 6 | Only five naked-eye novæ have appeared during the last twenty years , and there have not been many more within binocular range . |
| 7 | The first half of the book is an account of just how bleak things have become during the present period of Conservative government . |
| 8 | The cultivators became discouraged during the Japanese occupation and lack of export facilities , with the result that much land went out of cultivation . |
| 9 | Quite high proportions of their incomes are spent on fuelwood , and prices have rocketed during the last ten years — from Rs 20/- per load to Rs 50/-in Kathmandu , from Rs 7/- in Pokhara in 1973 to Rs 20/- in 1983 . |
| 10 | In addition to the students coming in through the normal channels , two non-uniform routes have emerged during the eighties . |
| 11 | The pipes had frozen during the severe weather , and the inhabitants of the street had to use a standing tap for their water : as a result , Eliot used to wash and shave at his club . |
| 12 | The social security system was , at first , principally intended to support pensioners and , although the numbers have increased during the last forty years , the main increases in those claiming supplementary benefit ( now renamed income support , have been the unemployed and single parents ( see Figure 5.1 ) . |
| 13 | The authorities had claimed during the previous month that the courts had " basically completed " all trials connected with the 1989 " counter-revolutionary rebellion " . |
| 14 | Among the children of a Woolwich school evacuated to somewhere in Kent the average weight of the boys has increased during the last month by 2½ lb. and of girls by 3½ lb . |
| 15 | The fine print of the speeches of Labour leaders and party policy documents has changed during the 1980s . |
| 16 | It estimated that 100,000-120,000 Iraqi troops had been killed , as well as 5,000-15,000 civilians , and that 2,000-5,000 Kuwaitis had died during the Iraqi occupation and in the war itself . |
| 17 | The women appear rather to get a share of the compensation for the " " il fit " " , the " unpleasant trick " ( 4184 ) that the clerks had suffered during the preceding day . |
| 18 | Some 7,000 soundings and 3,250 sea bed samples wee taken during the 1880s , and 52 separate survey documents carried out in 1964–65 supplemented by information from further boreholes sunk in the 1970s , and studies carried out for Eurotunnel by the Bureau de Recherchés Géologiques et Minières and Mott Hay and Anderson . |
| 19 | Its case for wholesale economic , social and political restructuring of the United Kingdom included arguing against the substantial power that the unions had obtained during the corporatist decades of the postwar period , especially within the monopoly nationalized industries . |