Example sentences of "[vb past] during the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A few of the offers to made during the first trading session have already been publicised .
2 One such was that at Charfield built during the first half of the 19th century .
3 Also shown are photographs of some of the more notable news happenings that occurred during the first half of the present century .
4 Unfortunately heavy losses occurred during the First World War with all four being sunk .
5 The accusations came during the first day of a tribunal in which Ron Thomson claims he was forced to quit his post as general manager at the trust .
6 One of the liveliest days of the campaign came during the first week .
7 During the study , it was also used to address some of the issues uncovered during the first Activity , particularly with regard to cooperation and coordination .
8 Such ‘ consort songs ’ began to proliferate during the second half of the century and still flourished during the first decade of the next ; the viol parts soon became more animated as in the masterly hands of William Byrd whose Psalmes , Sonets , and songs of sadnes and pietie ( 1588 ) were ‘ originally made for Instruments to expresse the harmonie , and one voyce to pronounce the dittie [ text ] ’ , though he now published them ‘ framed in all parts for voyces to sing the same ’ .
9 It was reported that three elderly women died during the first Scud attack when they suffocated because they had failed to remove filter covers from their masks .
10 The first on the village green is in the style of an Eleanor Cross , and dedicated to men from the estate who died during the First World War .
11 Privately , Rangers ' management feel the Belgian player involved with Hateley was guilty of conning the referee into taking the action he did during the first half of Wednesday 's match .
12 Aegean civilization , as this appeared during the first half of the second millennium B.C. , was sufficiently sure of its own identity to engage in traffic with the older ones of south-west Asia and the Nile Valley .
13 For Hegedus one of the greatest distortions of Marxism was the ideology of centralized and hierarchical state management propounded during the first period of socialist development .
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