Example sentences of "[vb base] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ My money problems are only temporary , I 'd learn to drive if I only had time for the lessons , and you 'd be surprised at how many gadgets I 've learned to use and even repair during the past four years . |
| 3 | With consumption forecast to rise by 2% in 1989 — and with demand for OPEC oil expected to be at least 1m b/d less than the cartels supply during the second quarter — the world could again be awash in oil in a matter of months . |
| 4 | Because the clinical signs appear during the prepatent period faecal egg counts are of little value in diagnosis which is best made on grazing history , clinical signs , and is possible , a post-mortem examination . |
| 5 | Blood vessels normally grow during the menstrual cycle , embryonic development and wound healing . |
| 6 | Staff there have seen over 1,000 jobs dissapear during the last 3 years , but with millions of pounds worth of orders coming their way , tonight they 're in a celebratory mood . |
| 7 | Yet few people know about a period of even greater invasion panic which spread during the Napoleonic wars , when a militia of Cornish miners dug defensive trenches to keep the French out of Plymouth . |
| 8 | We believe that the initial rise is related to increased levels of xanthine oxidase that accumulate during the ischaemic phase after organ retrieval . |
| 9 | They hibernate during the dry season by burrowing deep into the damp sand . |
| 10 | GROUP sales and marketing manager for the Benelux countries , Dolf Muller , is pictured , right , escorting the British Ambassador to the Netherlands , Sir Michael Jenkins , and his wife , around the Waterford Wedgwood stand during the International Dutch Autumn Trade Fair in Utrecht . |
| 11 | It was not an hypnotic trance , they stressed , and the mind remained fully alert during the two twenty-minute daily sessions . |
| 12 | Romantic love gives us a glimmer of something that we remember during the sticky times , and it 's only when the sticky times begin that real love starts to take over . |
| 13 | Chrysanthemums , poinsettia , corn , coffee and others flower during the shortening days of autumn and are known as short-day plants . |
| 14 | This is often impossible to obtain , however , as many of the torture techniques leave few visible injuries , or only superficial injuries which disappear during the long period in police custody . |
| 15 | All these viral infections have the same symptoms in the first few days — a patient might have ‘ flu , measles , hepatitis — ye canna tell during the porodomal period' — he used the technical term for the period of incubation . |
| 16 | When , not long before his execution , he passed comment on the mass-murder of the Nazi camps , it was only to point out that there were problems in supply and control during the last days of the Third Reich . |
| 17 | Suppose , to take another hypothetical example , that a historian in the year 2100 is undertaking a study of that by then obsolete and quaint custom of preserving public footpaths across private land ; and he/she wishes to compare the strength of the ramblers ’ lobby during the twenty-first century in the south west and the north east of England . |
| 18 | Oh , the poor mothers , you can see how they feel during the long goodbye , the long goodbye to babies . |
| 19 | Mike Hall , the new Cardiff captain , takes the Bridgend cover on the outside to touch down during the 15–5 quarter-final win during the recent Worthington Welsh Sevens at Cardiff Arms Park . |
| 20 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd come back from a trip to Australia with pictures of the aborigines ’ march during the Bicentenary Day ‘ celebrations ’ . |
| 22 | One hopes he will be rather keener to have play in marginal conditions if they arise during the next month . |
| 23 | The brambling in the pine tree was on its way back to its breeding grounds in birch woods or conifer forests — where insect populations peak during the short summer season in the far north of Europe . |
| 24 | In addition , opportunities exist during the first two years of the course to study further subjects which can include an additional Community language if students so wish . |
| 25 | All they needed was the proof , and when a photographer hired by a down-market Sunday newspaper caught the Princess of Wales emerging from her friend Kate Menzies 's mews house during the early hours of the morning with David Waterhouse , and fooling around in the quiet road , they thought they had it . |
| 26 | The winner will receive £5000 worth of holiday vouchers valid at any branch of Pickfords which can be used however you wish during the twelve month period to have the holiday ( or holidays ) of a lifetime . |
| 27 | But Darlington borough council has seen the number of vacant properties for all housing applicants fall during the same period from 930 four years ago to 660 in 1992 . |
| 28 | But Darlington borough council has seen vacant properties for all housing applicants fall during the same period from 930 four years ago to 660 in 1992 . |
| 29 | A variety of finger food can be introduced for them to suck and usually they start to chew on ones that they prefer during the second half of the first year . |
| 30 | Many companies and organisations throughout the world turned to AEA for consultancy and help during the past year . |