Example sentences of "were [verb] [adv prt] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 4 | The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has reduced its estimate of the annual rate at which tropical forests were cut down during the 1980s . |
| 5 | that helicopter 's were fucking around during the second World War but they , they were |