Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following day the share price index , which had fallen sharply during the previous year ( largely because funds had been siphoned from the stock exchange into real estate speculation ) , rose by almost 30 points , one of its biggest one-day gains . |
| 2 | The revolution in New Testament scholarship which had come about during the hundred years before he wrote The Problem of Pain appears to have passed him by . |
| 3 | Yonder , the town , had grown enormously during the last twenty years . |
| 4 | Masked by the explosion in cocaine abuse , and by Washington 's simple-minded preoccupation with the Colombian drug cartels , heroin addiction in the US had risen steeply during the 1980s . |
| 5 | A weighty body of objective opinion — of HMI , teachers , academics and local authorities — had built up during the 1970s to support the common-sense view that a pupil leaving school aged sixteen at the youngest should be prepared for the responsibilities and opportunities associated with the age of majority which he or she would attain no more than two years later . |
| 6 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 7 | The Roman Catholic Church lent its influence to a campaign against anti-Semitism , which had increased noticeably during the presidential elections , with a pastoral letter which was read out on Jan. 20 , 1991 . |
| 8 | Tourism authorities responded quickly to reports of the attack by issuing assurances that policing of Dublin streets had increased significantly during the past year and that crime against tourists had dropped by a third . |
| 9 | On July 11 the Sejm voted to reject Walesa 's electoral law and a constitutional amendment to remove a five-year residence qualification for candidates , which Walesa claimed discriminated against opposition figures who had fled abroad during the 1980s . |
| 10 | His relative impoverishment had proceeded rapidly during the twenties . |
| 11 | In that log book , which he showed me later , was the name , port and country of origin , of every ship that had passed through during the last eight and a half years , together with her age and condition , her destination , and of course the name of the captain and details of the cargo . |
| 12 | My destination was Welcombe in North Devon , a place introduced to me by Nigel , who had lived there during the early part of the war . |