Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [adv] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long spines on the exterior of the shell were developed especially during the Carboniferous . |
| 2 | The parallels here are with Sheffield before huge new steel works were erected there during the second half of the nineteenth century . |
| 3 | They were caught here during the press preview when the elements were much kinder ! |
| 4 | In Nottinghamshire no less than 164,508 ‘ presumed pickets ’ were turned back during the first 27 weeks of the strike ’ ( Wallington , 1985 : 154 ) . |
| 5 | 10 sows and one boar were moved in during the autumn and they 've already had 50 piglets . |
| 6 | Computers were used extensively during the car 's development , in a successful attempt to make the AX 220lb lighter than the class average . |
| 7 | These were used later during the validations . |
| 8 | The source/ destination codes added to the database during the MINSE analysis gave a fair indication of these relationships , and were used informally during the initial evaluation of software packages . |
| 9 | Until the South African mines were opened up during the last decade of the nineteenth century , diamonds were obtained exclusively from alluvial deposits , often those which also produced gold . |
| 10 | The gangs were called up during the war . |
| 11 | And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy . |
| 12 | These two concerns were brought together during the 1970s with the development of a system for the allocation of resources between regions and districts based upon health indices ( RAWP , see chapter 7 ) . |
| 13 | A television documentary screened tomorrow will show how thousands of children were shipped abroad during the nineteen fifties and sixties . |
| 14 | A television documentary to be screened tomorrow will show how thousands of children were shipped abroad during the fifties and sixties . |
| 15 | B. Each town has a few factories , most of which were set up during the last 40 years . |
| 16 | The unit costs used in assessing expenditure needs for indictable offences were reduced overall during the three year period . |
| 17 | The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) has reduced its estimate of the annual rate at which tropical forests were cut down during the 1980s . |
| 18 | Over 3 g C m -2 were fixed daily during the summer peak , and the annual rate of production was estimated at 173.0g C m -2 ( Light et al . , |
| 19 | Many such ‘ solutions ’ were put forward during the 1950s . |
| 20 | Rumours were put about during the strike that shipowners were threatening to import Chinese labour to man their vessels . |
| 21 | After the expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal in 1759 , the building became used as a barracks , and British troops were stationed here during the occupation of the island . |
| 22 | I do n't know how many breweries or pubs were knocked down during the redevelopment of Docklands . |
| 23 | But , unless some of the coins had mortar still adhering to them , it would be more correct to assume that they were lost either during the demolition or in the occupation which followed . |
| 24 | After Smith and two other Dunstable players were sent off during the match , the rest of the team left the field . |
| 25 | The World Bank 's 1985 review of project performance indicated that ‘ only 42 per cent of its projects were implemented as agreed , and 58 per cent were changed significantly during the implementation process ’ . |
| 26 | The date was pencilled in during the summer , but the tourists , who will effectively be a near Springbok side , wanted a Saturday fixture . |
| 27 | This was the first of two planned sales from the Korthaus collection , which was formed mainly during the 1960s by one of the German industrialists active in the field during the post-war period . |
| 28 | Of course the low percentage achievement does in part reflect the very high targets that were set as the plan was revised upwards during the course of the period , and it was carried out under the slogan of ‘ the five year plan in four years ’ . |
| 29 | This high level of mortality stands in stark contrast to the operation of support mechanism for large companies and was highlighted vividly during the recession of the mid-1970s . |
| 30 | Bill Morrison was posted here during the war and amazed everyone by contacting the hotel in 1991 to return one of their beer glasses which he had had since waiting at the bar one night during the way only to have them run out of beer . |