Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] during the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had first reported to Donleavy on the use of counterfeit money for DEA stings during the 1987 season , after Dany Habib had produced a sample from his desk drawer , but it was soon clear from what he observed at Eurame that this , too , had become standard operating procedure in his absence . |
| 2 | With the proliferation of puritan sects during the 1640s and 1650s , there was so great a range of extreme demands , from the nationalization of land to the emancipation of women , that it would be surprising if the natural philosophers had not begun to appear as moderates . |
| 3 | As a result , many ornamental objects once again survived , if only to become the focus for the activities of Puritan iconoclasts during the civil war . |
| 4 | Mike Ross , Widows ' managing director , said : ‘ Despite a good 1992 , nominal investment returns during the 1990s continue to be considerably lower than for the 1980s . |
| 5 | The clinical signs are likely to be few , and since most of the damage occurs during the prepatent phase , eggs may not be found in the urine . |
| 6 | The Lancashire ‘ cotton famine ’ , due to the cessation of cotton supplies during the American civil war of 1863–66 which caused severe unemployment and poverty , demonstrated most clearly that unemployment could be due to causes over which workers had no control ; it also demonstrated the peaceful fashion in which the labouring poor could behave in such circumstances . |
| 7 | Pete Youngman from Pest Control Chester has during the last three years generated over £100,000 worth of business purely through submitting D5 leads . |
| 8 | Beta testing starts during the first quarter of 1993 , with commercial availability expected by year-end . |
| 9 | Understanding the reasons for the decline in women 's employment after age 45 is important for community care policy , labour supply and pensions policy : older women are a major source of informal care for elderly people , yet are also a potential source of extra employees as the supply of school leavers declines during the 1990s . |
| 10 | One way of doing so , reported by Benedict Göes during the seventeenth century in Turkestan , was to apply heat and then split the rock by douching with cold water . |
| 11 | The complication occurs during the actual process of birth , caused by difficulties in labour , or ‘ anoxia ’ , known as oxygen starvation . |
| 12 | On April 23 , in a bid to defuse the conflict , Kohl proposed a 5 per cent pay cut for all ministers and top civil servants and pledged that there would be no further tax increases during the current legislative period ( i.e. until the autumn of 1994 ) . |
| 13 | In the Seven Years War over 30 per cent of the Letters of Marque vessels from Bristol were lost , while a third of Bristol privateers during the American War of Independence met the same fate . |
| 14 | The report also details severe pollution of water resources and the still greater problem of radioactive wastes , much of which was dumped in ordinary waste tips during the 1950s and 1960s . |
| 15 | I 've yet to soc totally confirm the number of weeks Mrs wants during the first two sessions that 's up to week fourteen when she wants exactly to do the aids . |
| 16 | Left : Universal winter-flowering pansies are indispensable for adding colour splashes during the bleakest months of winter . |
| 17 | And Conquest said that ‘ Grain exports during the early thirties were higher than at any time since the revolution , running around 5 million tons a year in 1930–31 and 1¾ million tons during the famine period of 1932–33 . |
| 18 | The issue of military corruption thrown up by the Pinocheques and La Cutufa cases [ see pp. 37852-53 ] had severely damaged the image of the army , which had projected itself as incorruptible and on this basis had hoped to defend itself successfully against charges of human rights abuses during the military dictatorship . |
| 19 | The fun stops during the 90 minutes ' play , though , because Taylor wants ‘ a good win ’ . |
| 20 | More societies are expected to announce mortgage rate increases during the Conservative Party conference this week . |
| 21 | The mean age of the patients was 48 years ( SD 13 years ) and the mean age at which the first duodenal ulcer had been diagnosed was 36 ( SD 13 ) years with a mean disease duration of 12 ( SD 10 ) years and 3 ( SD 2 ) ulcer relapses during the previous two years . |
| 22 | A study of the literature relating to recent child care legislation , policy and practice , together with a number of interviews carried out with individuals prominent in this field ( academics , practitioners and representatives of pressure groups ) focusing on policy shifts during the 1970s , suggested that at least two broad value positions , differing from each other on child care policy in important ways , might usefully be defined . |
| 23 | If you look at the oxygen results and plot them against the year of coral growth we see cooler water temperatures and hence stronger trade winds during the little ice age prior to nineteen hundred . |
| 24 | BELOW : Iron Mill stood immediately below Longfords , and was an iron works during the 17th century . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most famous cases of this period were the confrontations at the Saltley coal depot in Birmingham during the 1972 national coal dispute , at the Grunwick film processing laboratory in London in 1977 and outside the Hadfields private steel works during the 1980 national steel dispute . |
| 26 | Josephine Butler , a feminist who led the fight against the Contagious Diseases Acts during the 1860s and 1870s , accepted the desirability of female moral purity and sexual innocence , but also registered her vehement objection to the medical profession . |
| 27 | The new features that have been discovered by re-examining Recent taxa alongside the many new fossil finds during the past 15 years lead to classifications that suggest that lampreys are more closely related to gnathostomes than either is to hagfishes . |
| 28 | just as the reduced level of import controls during the post Second World War period saw a substantial increase in world trade , so the increasingly liberal attitude to capital controls during the 1980s has seen a marked increase in cross-border investment — both to establish new factories and to engage in takeovers of existing firms . |
| 29 | Sale starts during the first two weeks in January . |
| 30 | A developmental progression of toilet training emerges during the first four years of life . |