Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] during the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |
| 2 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 3 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 4 | A few co-operatives have been set up during the last 25 years . |
| 5 | He notes that any loss of earnings can usually be made up during the first ten years of work . |
| 6 | The 1990 Broadcasting Act means that three new independent radio services and a fifth television channel will be set up during the next Parliament . |
| 7 | To make the needle fit the groove , the disc contained abrasive material , so the tip would be ground down during the first two or three revolutions . |
| 8 | But if the negotiators do allow them to fail after all , or if the United States Congress rejects any compromise that may be worked out during the next two months , the effects will be disastrous . |
| 9 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 10 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 11 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 12 | that helicopter 's were fucking around during the second World War but they , they were |
| 13 | Will he take a personal interest in stopping this scandalous dumping and make sure that the overshoot is clawed back during the next two years , the time remaining to the EC-Chinese trade agreement ? |
| 14 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 15 | The Government 's being urged to stop developers bulldozing a site where vital intelligence work was carried out during the Second World War . |
| 16 | The ‘ standing army ’ of over a million unemployed was mopped up during the first year of hostilities , and between 1939 and 1943 almost 3 million jobs were added to the labour market , including many jobs for women . |
| 17 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |