Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] during the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not surprising , therefore , that incomes have dropped severely during the last few years , with the result that we are now beginning to see signs of dereliction . |
| 2 | A family which was torn apart during the Second World War has had an emotional reunion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although The Art Newspaper has written extensively during the last few months about the problems the international art trade will be facing in just over half a year from now , I nevertheless want to bring to your attention some other serious difficulties which the art market will have to confront , issues which are quite separate from the general economic malaise affecting business at the moment . |
| 5 | Yonder , the town , had grown enormously during the last twenty years . |
| 6 | Government , employers and educators alike are now convinced that higher education should be expanded radically during the next decade , to include perhaps twice as high a proportion of school leavers and others than has traditionally been the case in the UK . |
| 7 | It has however been the subject of much criticism , which has grown substantially during the second half of the present century . |
| 8 | Prednisone was used less during the second year ; twenty six patients received one course and 10 children two or more courses . |
| 9 | It was used extensively during the Second World War , and is still used in parts of the Third World to help eradicate malaria and typhus . |
| 10 | Work on the drift deposits of the Livingston and Falkirk areas in central Scotland indicate that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 11 | The distribution of raised marine sediments and associated well-marked shorelines reveal that sea-levels have risen and fallen repeatedly during the last 13 000 years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Millmead battled away and did the best they could , but their cause was blighted further during the second half when they were reduced to eight men due to injury . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The southern islands became known mostly during the 17th to 19th centuries ; Antarctica itself remained unvisited until the late 18th century , and unrecognized as a continent before the start of the 20th century . |
| 16 | Several young adults hatched there during the last two breeding seasons live there as well . |
| 17 | The level of owner occupation in Britain has increased rapidly during the last 30 years to the point where nearly two out of every three households either own or are buying their own home . |
| 18 | Many farmers even in DRAs are wealthy on paper simply because land prices have increased dramatically during the last thirty years . |
| 19 | the rate of change in society has increased dramatically during the last two centuries . |
| 20 | The number of designated clean air zones has increased steadily during the last 25 years , and Table 15–1 shows the dramatic reduction in smoke pollution in the UK . |
| 21 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | ‘ Not that that 's much of a road to speak of , ’ the Brigadier went on , But the family has n't lived there since before the war-there were German and then English soldiers billeted here during the second war … ’ |
| 23 | If one of the wardens should die during his term of office , and this has happened twice during the last twenty years , another of the names will be drawn out . |
| 24 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Agricultural policy which involves paying the highest prices for the fattest lamb and cattle has changed little during the last 10 years . |
| 27 | Eating habits in the West have changed dramatically during the last ten to twenty years . |