Example sentences of "during the [det] [noun] the " in BNC.

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1 During the latter years the only minute of interest was in October 1869 when " the secretary was empowered to write to Mr Menzies and Dr. Campbell , the former from taking any papers and the latter from entering the room altogether , not being a subscriber , " In 1870 there was a complaint about the pilfering of papers and the committee have to acknowledge , with regret , that their attempts to prevent this evil have not been attended with such success as had been anticipated .
2 Yet during the same period the acreage devoted to export crops grew from only 15.5 million hectares to 17.2 million ; of the seven major export crops the production volume of only three : tea , cotton and tobacco , increased .
3 During the same period the government gave the motorist just £3.8 back in road building .
4 However , during the same period the Japanese economy has been growing at about 3% per year .
5 during the same period the results which I feel I did not achieve were …
6 Twenty years previously there had been only 83 sub-committees of standing committees in the House , but by 1976 there were 151 ; during the same period the number of sub-committees in the Senate increased from 88 to 140 .
7 During the same period the numbers of Inland Revenue staff were declining , by some 20 per cent to 68,000 in 1987 .
8 During the same period the number of places in private residential homes increased by an average of over 17 per cent a year .
9 During the same period the situation on the ground in southern Lebanon remained tense , with frequent clashes between Hezbollah guerrillas on the one hand and Israeli forces and their South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) proxy forces on the other .
10 But during the same period the futures price has fallen by just 10 per cent .
11 During the same period the number of apprentices more than trebled from 80 to 250 as the town became a specialist craft centre offering a wide variety of trades .
12 During a particular week the fisherman sells the farmer two fish at £4 per fish , and during the same week the farmer sells the fisherman eight loaves at £1 per loaf .
13 During the same month the men of Essex agreed to pay 500 marks and five palfreys for the disafforestment of Essex north of the ‘ Stanestreet ’ .
14 During the same month the Young Republicans barricaded themselves into a house in Harvey Street to resist the eviction of a family that had been on the housing list for eighteen years .
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