Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] during the [num] " in BNC.
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1 | In Britain , the idea seemed confirmed during the 1980s . |
2 | The eventual collapse of the adjustable peg system came about as a result of intensification of the pressures that had developed during the 1960s . |
3 | It marked it out as a patriotic party , in contrast to the general image it had earned during the 1920s . |
4 | Mosley had decided during the 1931 general election campaign to form a fascist movement , after the devastating defeat in which the New Party lost all its parliamentary seats and twenty-two of its twenty-four candidates forfeited their deposits , and his visit to Mussolini in Rome and to nazi leaders in Munich in January 1932 merely strengthened his resolve . |
5 | During the course of the 1929–31 government , MacDonald gradually appreciated that the hopes which he had entertained during the 1920s of eliminating the Liberals and winning over the whole of the progressive vote for the Labour party could not be achieved . |
6 | However , many things had happened during the two years since she had been told that her mother had died of the fever and that , prior to this , she had not been allowed to see her in case she should catch it and spread it further . |
7 | This was a technique which had evolved during the 1930s and would hardly have been practical either for Craddock at St Mary 's in 1929 or , perhaps , even for Raistrick in 1931 . |
8 | The time had come , Pravda argued , for a return to the essence of socialism , and for a break with the distorted form it had acquired during the 1930s and 1940s . |