Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] during the 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 | Chalford suffered again during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 3 | Villages as well as towns expanded rapidly during the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 4 | India 's economy faltered during 1990 , and with the impact of the Gulf war the situation worsened considerably during the first half of 1991 . |
| 5 | Herbert ( 1978 ) suggests that conference interpreting began only during the First World War , while before that international conferences were held in French . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After two-and-a-half years of stubborn resistance , the Republic collapsed rapidly during the first three months of 1939 . |
| 8 | Domestic exports performed badly during the first half of 1990 , but growth in the re-export trade partly compensated . |
| 9 | 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 . |