Example sentences of "[verb] during [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few of the offers to made during the first trading session have already been publicised . |
| 2 | THE long-mocked idea of reparations to compensate black Americans for the slavery experienced by their ancestors is now before the US Congress , and its supporters say the $1.25 billion package to compensate Japanese-Americans who were interned during the second world war has created a legal precedent . |
| 3 | A few years ago Japanese-Americans were compensated for being interned during the second world war , and some ( mostly white ) people have begun to point out that blacks have yet to be compensated for centuries of slavery . |
| 4 | On Oct. 26 , 1989 , the House of Representatives fulfilled a commitment made in 1988 [ see p. 37081 ] when they voted that $20,000 should be paid to each of 62,000 Japanese-Americans who had been interned during the Second World War . |
| 5 | Only within the last 20 to 25 years has there even been an identifiable cohort of ageing disabled adults ; first , life expectancy for many types of impairments prior to this was low ; second , people who became disabled as a result of injuries received during the Second World War are now entering older age ; third , many children and young adults disabled as a result of the polio epidemics of the late 1940s and early 1950s are now in their 50s or older . |
| 6 | Each party to the conference , including the Palestinian representation , was understood to have received during the second half of October a separate " letter of assurances ' from the US government . |
| 7 | While in Ceylon we visited Allied Headquarters in Kandy , where I was taken one afternoon by Colonel Christian into the ‘ War Room ’ to hear the reports received during the last twenty-four hours , and a commentary on them by a senior staff officer . |
| 8 | And the salary reference is the highest salary rate you 've actually received during the last three years . |
| 9 | It was swollen with the heavy rain that had fallen during the last few days , and it looked fierce and dark . |
| 10 | It was stripped of this status when its majority Tatar population was deported to Central Asia , accused of having collaborated during the Second World War with the Nazi German occupiers . |
| 11 | From these sources , it is possible quite quickly to gain an idea of how parkland has changed over the years — usually expanding in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , and then contracting during the twentieth . |
| 12 | Sleep spindles develop during the first two months of life , varying in frequency between 10 and 4Hz although showing no systematic tendency to increase in frequency with age ( as is the case with the waking alpha rhythm , which progressively becomes faster with age , to reach a maximum of 10–11Hz ) . |
| 13 | Eating during the first week will be very similar to that on baseline days during the preparation phase ( because only the first goals in the lists will be introduced ) . |
| 14 | But this turnover is so extraordinarily slow that each grain could only have been exposed during the last 4600 Ma for a total time much less than a million years thus requiring considerably higher cosmic-ray intensities in the past , which though possible is thought by several scientists to be unlikely . |
| 15 | This will ship during the first quarter of this year . |
| 16 | The European market for acetate filament yarn is expected to shrink slightly during 1993 — disappointing but not such a blow as that experienced during the last two years which saw the market in Europe tumble from 40,000 tons to 30,000 . |
| 17 | There are three common grades of olive oil : extra virgin , which is thick and green , and cold-pressed with an acidity of less than 1% ; virgin , which is green and cold-pressed but with up to 4% acidity , and fine olive oil , for general cooking , which is heat treated during the second pressing to extract the maximum oil from the fruit and often blended with other olive oils . |
| 18 | The changeover from the domestic system of manufacture to that of the textile mill was completed during the next generation . |
| 19 | The reader 's sympathy towards Pip continues to fall during the second part of his expectations due to his rejection and embarrassment of his past life . |
| 20 | The impersonal and durable character of these rights was highlighted during the last years of Louis VII 's reign , in the use in charters of the phrase corona regni ( the crown of the kingdom ) , a phrase which marked out royal rights from princely by asserting their value to the kingdom as a whole . |
| 21 | The story of how Meehan and his advisors tried and failed during the next seven years to obtain justice for him in the light of increasing evidence of his innocence and Waddell 's guilt makes sorry reading . |
| 22 | However , this does not imply that BT will underperform during the next 12 months or that those shares which overperformed ( e.g. ICI with an abnormal return of +40 per cent ) will repeat their past performance . |
| 23 | Those ‘ events ’ of primitive evolution which did not qualify as ‘ good ’ should not be termed ‘ bad ’ , but simply ‘ not good ’ , because ‘ bad ’ implies the existence of ‘ evil ’ , and this did not exist during the first two of the three periods into which this book assumes universal existence to be divided . |
| 24 | Up to one million purchases are estimated to have been delayed during the last three years because of the sluggish market . |
| 25 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 26 | Originally the decoration was in rich mosaic and marble but much of this has gone due to looting during the Fourth Crusade . |
| 27 | As Pittsburgh expanded during the twentieth century and out-of-town residential locations became feasible , the population profile of the North Side changed . |
| 28 | Although the Slovene economy developed during the nineteenth century as a satellite economy to that of Austria , at the end of the eighteenth century it had a sufficient degree of autonomy to sustain a self-reliant , Slovene-speaking middle class which could act as a spokesman for the national movement . |
| 29 | Furthermore , the context in which gynaecology and obstetrics developed during the 19th century was one of intense conflict among different kinds of medical practitioners , of tremendous change in the organisation of the medical profession , and of social and economic insecurity for many of its members . |
| 30 | class teacher interviews , using a modified interview schedule developed during the second project ( 1986 ) . |