Example sentences of "were [vb pp] during the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kuwait intervention , though important to the Defence policy-makers , was of little consequence to the political departments , whose mandarins were immersed during the first half of 1961 in two major debates : how to handle the Anglo-American special relationship after Kennedy had taken over as US President in January ; and whether or not to put less emphasis on Anglo-American and Commonwealth links by applying belatedly to join the EEC . |
| 2 | Siemens has no dates yet for them but their orientation certainly suggests they were built during the first centuries AD . |
| 3 | Last year foxes were unusually abundant and 27 were shot during the first week of lambing . |
| 4 | In a study , again in Costa Rica , the vegetation biomass , nutrient content and species composition were measured during the first year after clear-cutting of plots , some of which were treated with commercial inorganic fertilizer ( 70kg N , 87.5kg P and 166kg K per hectare ) while others were planted with the pioneering Cecropia obtusifolia , as seedlings . |
| 5 | Both these works were played during the first Tilford Bach Festival after which William Mann reviewing the concert in the Times wrote ‘ such a Festival in such a place does Bach signal homage ’ . |
| 6 | At first the allowance was £10 for each child under sixteen years of age , but this and the income limit were raised during the First World War , and later , in 1919 , the age limit for the child was abolished provided he or she was still in full-time education . |
| 7 | These earliest faces and the French versions of them , which were derived during the first half of the 16th century by type-founders such as Garamond , remain the models for most type-faces . |
| 8 | HISTORIC war department buildings in Essex are being restored to their former glory.Jobless volunteers have started clearing overgrowth from around the wartime buildings at Beacon Hill , Harwich , paving the way for full restoration work in the future.The work is being organised by NACRO , the National Association for the Care and Rehabilitation of Offenders , on behalf of the Essex Training and Enterprise Council.Project supervisor Ray Rawlinson said the 18 people working at Beacon Hill were long-term unemployed and did not have criminal records.The buildings date back to the Napoleonic wars were updated during the first and second world wars . |
| 9 | Many of the wagons , dating back to the late nineteenth century , were requisitioned during the First World War and purchased , from R.N.A.D. Bandeath on its closure , by the S.R.P.S. |
| 10 | Merrill 's forebodings about working for Luke were fulfilled during the first morning . |