Example sentences of "of [adj] when [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the summer of 1943 when wartime industrial production in the USA was nearing its peak , a wave of absenteeism swept through women working in key areas of the US war effort to the extent that the FBI were called in to investigate whether some elaborate form of Axis sabotage was afoot . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , the Treasurer suggested that the worst was probably over , and that the recession would not be as deep as that of 1982/83 when GDP had declined for four consecutive quarters and both inflation and unemployment had exceeded 10 per cent . |
| 3 | He retired from active service at the end of the war but was recalled in the early summer of 1648 when Parliament found itself facing a serious mutiny in the fleet . |
| 4 | Significant moves have been made towards introducing such a requirement in the near future , however , and it would be prudent to take account of these when planning your return . |
| 5 | This is an imaginary trip during the summer of 1957 when steam still ruled on British Rail metals . |
| 6 | LORD Spencer 's death might have served to remind this country of the dread winter of 1978/1979 when rubbish was uncollected in the streets , the fire brigades were on strike , hospitals were picketed by auxiliary workers who demanded to approve all surgical operations , housewives fought each other over a cauliflower leaf and the dead lay unburied in every churchyard . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1973 when Pursuit was on its way to the printers , the BBC sent me to Washington to cover the Senate Watergate hearings . |
| 8 | Johnny was a Canadian hush pilot before the war and was fortunate to survive the trough of despair in the spring and early summer of 1942 when survival chances were at their lowest ( see graph on page 85 ) . |
| 9 | The output of goods and services declined sharply in the fourth quarter ; preliminary estimates suggested that gross national product ( GNP ) in the quarter fell at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent ( after adjustments for inflation and seasonal factors ) , the sharpest fall since the third quarter of 1982 when GNP fell at an annual rate of 3.2 per cent . |
| 10 | Overuse can lead to pollution , declining groundwater levels and , eventually , to trouble of one sort or another ; internecine feuds were reported in southern Spain in the summer of 1983 when river levels were at an all-time low . |