Example sentences of "[coord] during the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 2 | Lord ‘ Bertie ’ Denham , the bluff and genial Chief Whip who floated between the Lords , White 's and Pratt 's proffering a glass of whisky to any peer tempted to vote against a government bill , likes to maintain that there is no inbuilt Conservative majority in the Lords , and during the first two Thatcher terms the government did indeed lose 111 votes . |
| 3 | The oligosaccharides have been found to be particularly concentrated in colostrum — the thick , creamy pre-milk that is produced by the breasts in late pregnancy and during the first few days after birth before the breastmilk proper comes in . |
| 4 | And during the first three centuries A.D. , there were certain Mandaean or Johannite sects , especially in the region of the Tigris-Euphrates basin , who honoured John , not Jesus , as their prophet . |
| 5 | Consequently , you seem to have experienced a testing period in close personal ties and in joint financial arrangements , and during the first three weeks of April you will come to realise that a day of reckoning or a major upheaval was unavoidable . |
| 6 | " The neighbourhood was not very populous and during the first three days our visitors were few , some children from the village below , a gypsy woman or two with dark eyes , who carried of a few halfpence , and perhaps a chance passer by . |
| 7 | During 1989 a total of 21,882 people , nearly twice as many as in 1988 and most of them from Eastern Europe , sought asylum in Austria , and during the first three months of 1990 the numbers reached 5,000 , most of them being Romanians who were arriving at a rate of 200 per day in late February . |
| 8 | But neither the Ecclesiastical Courts nor the Common Law Courts are well adapted to settle the numerous conflicting rights of creditors , legatees , and next of kin ; trusts are often involved , and during the last two centuries the most effectual and usual method of asserting a claim to or against the estate of a deceased person is to get the estate administered in Chancery . |
| 9 | She is in fact already a teacher of a few years ' experience , with one class in her own village of Strathkinness in Fife , and two more in nearby St. Andrews ; she has even more experience as a traveller , having for some time regularly made the journey to Edinburgh by bicycle and train to attend training Saturdays with Rita Quick and Monday recreational classes with Muriel Jessop , and during the last two years undertaken the long trip south to take part in Aston Clinton weekends . |
| 10 | And during the last two centuries , especially when Britain had strong ties with India and the Indian sub-continent and the trade was flourishing on those routes . |
| 11 | And during the last four years you have n't seen him at all , while I 've spent nine or ten hours a day with him , sometimes even more if we 're particularly busy . |
| 12 | All this calls for a very careful and flexible system of budgeting and control , particularly at the outset and during the last three months of the year . |
| 13 | To analyse changes in urinary albumin and sodium excretion and mean arterial pressure we meaned the values ( log transformed for urinary albumin excretion ) recorded during the placebo period and during the last three months of follow up . |
| 14 | In the case of Britain , however , and during the last 15 years especially , multi-employer bargaining within manufacturing has declined in favour of single-employer negotiations . |
| 15 | That their father 's death must be a relief to her elder sister was obvious , for Major O'Brien had been hopelessly paralysed for years , and during the last few months of his life had been unable to speak . |
| 16 | The most famous of the French psalm-composers , Claude Goudimel ( C. 1514–1572 ) , who also wrote chansons ( notably settings of Ronsard ) , Horatian odes , Masses , and Latin motets , published in 1551 eight compositions of Marot 's psalms ‘ mis en musique au long ( en forme des mottetz ) ’ based on the Bourgeois melodies , for three , four , or five voices , and during the next fifteen years produced seven more books of ‘ motet ’ psalms . |
| 17 | Probably disillusioned with the Arts and Crafts Movement , he turned to archaeology and during the next thirty years worked on sites in the area . |
| 18 | And during the next thirty years composers associated with the Académie set his poems , including a translation of the Psalms , to music in which , as Philip Sidney put it , ‘ every semibreif or mynom had its syllables matched accordingly with a long foote and a short foote ’ , not monodic but in harmony with each syllable sung simultaneously in all parts . |
| 19 | But by the 26th , he was in ward in Dalkeith , and during the next two months was moved from there to Seton , and then to Blackness and St Andrews before finally being released on lo April . |
| 20 | He negotiated Malaya 's independence from the United Kingdom two years later and was the country 's first Prime Minister , overseeing the creation of the Federation of Malaysia in 1963 , and during the next two years withstanding the threat of " Confrontation " with Indonesia and taking the difficult decision that Singapore secede from the Federation . |
| 21 | Tonight , and during the next two Tuesday programmes , we are going to look at cultural links and influences . |
| 22 | He returned to Johannesburg at the close of the Boer war in 1902 and during the next four years proved that ore deposits similar to those of the central Rand goldfield were also present in the east Rand . |
| 23 | In the early months of 1830 he broadened his vision with the establishment of the National Association of United Trades for the Protection of Labour ( NAPL ) and during the next four years he was at the centre of the many radical and union initiatives that were such a notable feature of the period . |
| 24 | At 6.00 p.m. the local police station was attacked with petrol bombs , and during the next eight hours large numbers of people , both black and white , took part in burning and looting which caused damage estimated at £3 million . |
| 25 | Around 200 pumps are now in place and during the next three years villagers will learn to maintain them . |
| 26 | MAX B HARLOW graduated from Stanford University in 1927 and during the next ten years or so worked for various aircraft manufacturers , including Thaden , Bach , Waldo Waterman , Allan Lockheed , Bert Kinner , Northrop and Douglas , where he was involved in stress analysis for the DC-2 . |
| 27 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 28 | That first day at school depressed me , and during the next few days I begged my parents to let me stay at home , which of course was out of the question . |
| 29 | In 1827 he founded the British Society for Promoting the Religious Principles of the Reformation ( later Protestant Reformation Society ) as a vehicle for outright proselytism , and during the next few years participated in numerous public debates with Roman Catholics , both in Britain and in Ireland . |
| 30 | The first teashop opened in 1894 in Piccadilly , and during the next few years a chain of teashops was opened in London . |