Example sentences of "[adj] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it happens , the concrete evidence about marriage in the " 1910 sample " analysed in Chapter 6 ( those women in the trade in 1910 ) very largely relates to women who were aged about 18–28 during the Great War , and it could reasonably be argued that the war played such havoc with the marriage chances of this generation that it will have contained an unusually high proportion of women who never married . |
| 2 | whitewashed West Indies in the one-dayers and were then routed 4–0 during the main business of that summer . |
| 3 | The belief that working class men would choose idleness if at all possible and that married women 's work provided them with the opportunity was particularly strong during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries . |
| 4 | As has been explained previously , the value of the Guinness offer for Distillers depended on the relative share prices of the two shares and the Guinness share price proved to be strong during the final lap of the campaign . |
| 5 | These ties were particularly strong during the Hohenstaufen dynasty in the twelfth and thirteenth century . |
| 6 | The bond between grandparents and grandchildren can remain strong during the difficult years of adolescence . |
| 7 | Only a tentative diagnosis is possible during the pulmonary phase of heavy infections when the larvae are migrating , and is based on the simultaneous appearance of pneumonic signs in a litter , often within two weeks of birth . |
| 8 | Two or three cameras , mounted on tripods , could be placed in three select committee rooms and in two used by standing committees , and some upgrading of the lights was required in those rooms when the cameras were in use , but the aim was to make as few changes as possible during the experimental period . |
| 9 | Dr. Edwin Pugh , director of public health medicine , said there were 1,001 things the authority wanted to do but those in the business plan were items which were thought possible during the coming year . |
| 10 | I want to remind you os some achievements you have made possible during the past 13 years . |
| 11 | In the West Cumbria project , funded by DOE , evaluation of existing geological records and mine plans has enabled solid and drift maps of the Coal Measures and Lower Carboniferous sequences to be compiled at 1:10 000 and 1:25 000 in more detail than was possible during the previous survey almost 60 years ago . |
| 12 | The name of the Russian General Suworow keeps coming up in this region because of the marches made by the army he brought up from Italy into Switzerland in 1799 during the Napoleonic Wars , forcing the Gotthard Pass against bitter French resistance , but later driven to retreat back up the Muota valley when the French blocked his path at the passage of the Schlattli bridge . |
| 13 | Freud began to develop his theories in 1886 during the Victorian Age , a time when it was socially unacceptable to discuss sex , and it was considered that woman and children should be seen and not heard . |
| 14 | He had become used to much worse than that during the past few weeks . |
| 15 | Thus the real cost of £1,000 worth of BES shares to anybody earning more than that during the fiscal year , which starts on Monday , would be only £500 . |
| 16 | Langbaurgh council says there will not be as many entertainments as usual during the final gala day on Sunday August 16 . |
| 17 | Nan had been so supportive during the long war waged with Brian . |
| 18 | — Have you been sad or depressed during the past month ? |
| 19 | The modest resettlement programme in rural areas which aimed to improve the grossly inequitable distribution of land prevailing during the colonial period was less effective than had been hoped , and was cut back by the stabilization measures taken in 1982–84 . |
| 20 | However , it was quickly realised that this area was much too extensive and the southern part of rural Bedfordshire remained largely unvisited during the three-year period . |
| 21 | Such newspapers were to sell over 3 million copies each during the great press battles of the 1920s and 1930s : sales of such magnitude that they easily dwarfed the circulation of the dailies of the late 19th century . |
| 22 | In this case , the plaintiff farmer was prevented from getting onto his land to spray his crops in order to kill wild oats until much later than normal during the wet spring of 1983 . |
| 23 | Misty-eyed when he first appeared he looked practically fog-bound during the closing numbers . |
| 24 | For practical purposes the easily observable amenorrhoeic period can be taken as a proxy for the anovulatory period , though ovulation can precede the first menstruation after birth , so that women may become pregnant during the amenorrhoeic period . |
| 25 | So far as the early history of the emancipation process is concerned Field 's position is probably stronger than Zakharova 's , for although Nicholas I 's call for a militia gave rise to disturbances among the peasantry in 1855 , although almost all the memoranda which circulated in private during the Crimean War referred to the possibility of peasant risings , and although Alexander II alluded to the prospect of rural uprisings both in his speech to the Moscow gentry and in his comments on the papers submitted to him by Haxthausen , it is hard to prove that rural developments took pride of place among the reasons for setting reform in train . |
| 26 | We are most receptive during the tender , vulnerable years , the years which we have most difficulty in recalling . |
| 27 | JULIE-ANN , 18 , needs someone to keep her sane during the long winter months . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've met quite a few during the past five years , ’ he agreed smoothly . |
| 29 | But that will not be it : the firm predicts liabilities will peak at ¥12 trillion in 1993 , before falling by half during the following year or two . |
| 30 | Detroit 's population has dwindled by half during the past four decades , to barely 1m . |