Example sentences of "during the [adj] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Belfast Harbour Commissioners are confident that during the 1990's the Port of Belfast will remain Ireland 's premier port , largely due to its ability to respond to the challenges presented by changing trading patterns within an economically unified Europe and by its ability to satisfy its customers ' need and demands for an efficient , cost effective service . |
| 2 | Many were also given lockable doors to preserve privacy , and curtains to prevent draughts ; indeed , some became so elaborate that during the 1630s the Bishop of Norwich , Richard Corbett , was led to remark wryly that they lacked ‘ nothing but beds to hear the word of God on ’ . |
| 3 | During the 1920s the discovery of hormones led to a new variant in the theory of sexual difference based on emotional instability . |
| 4 | During the 1920s the loss of population from rural parts of England and Wales was relatively gradual , only exceeding 5 per cent in upland Wales , northern England , and parts of Wiltshire and Suffolk . |
| 5 | During the sixties the rate of inflation experienced in the UK , although higher than that of most international competitors , never rose above 10 per cent . |
| 6 | During the 1960s the focus of marketing attention changed from the product to the customer . |
| 7 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |
| 8 | During the 1970s a forum of scholar-critics gradually became established in England . |
| 9 | During the 1970s the provision of rural housing for those who can not partake in the market sector has been pitiful . |
| 10 | For example , during the 1970s the Department of Health and Social Security and the Social Science Research Council funded a number of studies concerned with the nature , causes and outcomes of deprivation and disadvantage in families . |
| 11 | During the 1950s-1960s the growth of cities followed the growth of industry , but subsequently intense concern over overcrowding , pollution and transport congestion stimulated revived interest in locating industry away from residential areas , in particular establishing strategic industrial and processing centres on the coast where shipping facilities are convenient . |
| 12 | During the 1980s a number of such co-operative enterprises came into existence — for example ESPRIT , EUREKA , FAST and RACE . |
| 13 | During the 1980s the participation of 18-year-olds in higher education doubled from one in eight of the population to one in four . |
| 14 | During the 1980s the level of income tax for high income groups was reduced substantially . |
| 15 | During the 1980s the number of Japanese tourists increased by 133 per cent ; the number of Americans travelling abroad reached over forty one million , although this was a relatively small percentage of the population ; over 70 per cent of British adults had been abroad ( mostly on package holidays ) , but West Germany was the major tourist-generating country . |
| 16 | Mr Dorrell , visiting Darlington Memorial Hospital , claimed during the 1980s the number of patients treated in the town rose by an average of 5pc a year . |
| 17 | During the 1930s the imposition of the household means test on those drawing public assistance benefits led to greater reluctance to take in elderly relatives . |
| 18 | During the 1950s the population of the South-East went up by 1.13 million , with a net migration gain of 438,000 . |
| 19 | However , during the 1950s the introduction of new drugs , popularly known as tranquillizers , brought about a ‘ therapeutic revolution ’ within the hospitals . |
| 20 | During the fair the appointment of Hans König as Chairman of the European Fine Arts Foundation ( the Fair 's organisers ) was announced . |
| 21 | During the eighties the proportion of employees in union membership was down to forty eight percent in nineteen ninety , from fifty eight percent in nineteen ni eighty four . |
| 22 | First during the seventies the position of women in society , an issue dormant since the 1930s , became again a matter of public debate . |
| 23 | But during the Fifties the impact of the Disarmers on American public opinion was ‘ very marginal ’ according to David Riesman , the Harvard sage . |
| 24 | During the 1860s the energy of the radicals was absorbed for the most part in rebellion against the values and conventions of the educated world from which they sprang . |