Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] during [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was developed and used primarily during the First World War as a means of preventing dogs , used in the trenches as messengers and for other activities , from betraying their positions by a casual bark . |
| 2 | NCD claims to have shipped 25.9% of the 96,610 X-terminals thought to have been installed worldwide during the first six months of this year . |
| 3 | Chalford suffered again during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 4 | Villages as well as towns expanded rapidly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | India 's economy faltered during 1990 , and with the impact of the Gulf war the situation worsened considerably during the first half of 1991 . |
| 6 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 7 | Herbert ( 1978 ) suggests that conference interpreting began only during the First World War , while before that international conferences were held in French . |
| 8 | Courier , who had not played well during the first two sets , said he received a pep talk from Agassi that really picked up his spirits . |
| 9 | By the late 1930s , the position had improved somewhat , but unemployment soared again during the first two years of the Second World War , when about a quarter of the membership found itself unemployed.29 For these single women in their 40s and 50s , it was not immediately easy to find war work , for instance in munitions factories , nor were they necessarily eager to do so . |
| 10 | After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance , the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939 . |
| 11 | The Indian economy was made to contribute heavily during the First World War , including a gift payment of £100 million . |
| 12 | Domestic exports performed badly during the first half of 1990 , but growth in the re-export trade partly compensated . |
| 13 | The proportion of infants exposed to smoking by their mothers , from other family members , from non-household sources and from more than one of these sources , increased significantly during the first year of life . |
| 14 | It is true that much of the subsequent shape and form that a rose assumes is determined more during the first year or two of pruning than any subsequent factor . |
| 15 | TI 's Sparc marketing manager Phil Campbell said the first few lots of the reconstructed chip will be coming off the line in December with volumes following sometime during the first quarter . |