Example sentences of "on [noun sg] [verb] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fundamentally , roses are as much shrubs as any others in the garden and , like them , divide broadly into two categories as far as pruning is concerned ; those that flower in spring and summer on wood developed during the previous growth period ( i.e. last year ) , and those that flower , necessarily a little later , from mid summer on , upon wood that has developed during the current season . |
| 2 | Ethridge writes that although expenditure on education increased during the 1980s , ‘ the increase in enrolment has been such that the average per-pupil expenditure actually decreased ’ . |
| 3 | However , as a percentage of total government expenditure , spending on education fell during the 1980s , as Figure 8.7 shows . |
| 4 | A study of the literature relating to recent child care legislation , policy and practice , together with a number of interviews carried out with individuals prominent in this field ( academics , practitioners and representatives of pressure groups ) focusing on policy shifts during the 1970s , suggested that at least two broad value positions , differing from each other on child care policy in important ways , might usefully be defined . |
| 5 | In one Lambeth family investigated by Mrs Pember Reeves , the expenditure on margarine doubled during the week the husband took over the family budgeting in the absence of his wife , simply because he allowed everyone to take as large a share as himself . |
| 6 | It focuses on material recovered during the last five years from shipwrecks off the Mediterranean shores of Israel and from the bottom of the Dead Sea . |