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

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1 Many if not most of them had doubled in size during the first half of the nineteenth century .
2 The alcove to the left of the fireplace had a rounded arch at the top with three shelves , chock-a-block with crest china souvenirs , so much in fashion during the first quarter of this century .
3 It was decreed that the old rating system should seek to produce a value based on a free market in property , but the House destroyed that free market in property during the first world war .
4 Still shaken , Woodfull picked up his bat again , but the roars of the crowd increased in intensity during the first ball of the next over when the offside field was suddenly changed to a legside field .
5 Luxemburg was vigorously criticised by a number of leading Marxists at that time , such as Otto Bauer and Karl Kautsky , and while she was in prison during the First World War she wrote a reply to her critics .
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