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

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1 WHILE ENJOYING the high quality of play by England during the recent New Zealand tour and latterly the World Cup , and appreciating the fitness they displayed , I could n't help but wonder about the current medical practices being used to prepare players for matches while still injured .
2 " It 's true to say that there was a great deal of discontent in Russia during the reign of Nicholas II , indeed there were things wrong with Russian society that needed reforming badly , whilst the ruling class lived in unabashed luxury the peasants who made up 90 per cent of the population had to be contend with lack of food and primitive living conditions added to this was was a completely ineffective educational system which meant that illiteracy was widespread , thus problems were on a large scale in Russia social reforms were desperately needed , as were political reforms since Russia as an autocratic country suppressed any means of political liberation . "
3 This paper reports the results of the Scottish Council 's survey of exports from Grampian during the year 1990/91 .
4 A different expression of a roughly similar tendency can be seen in the fact that the total production of books in Russia during the years 1762–1800 was about three and a half times that in the entire period from the introduction of printing down to 1761 .
5 But generally the level of violence in Cambodia during the election was lower than during the campaign .
6 The slightly grudging tone is revealing : the AMMA , like most other teaching unions , campaigned against the funding of schools from Whitehall during the last Parliament .
7 In medieval Europe and Islam , for example , the monetary stability of the coinage was adjudged paramount and consequently the same design was retained for long periods to maintain public confidence and implicitly offer reassurance about the unchanging quality of the coinage ; we have already noted in Chapter 2 the same sort of attitude in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries BC ( see figs. 9 and 3 ) .
8 In addition , for the first time in generations , as Table 4.2 indicates , there was an actual net inflow of population to Britain during the 1930s , a factor which would , of course , have increased Britain 's population growth rate .
9 This research aims to study the amount , patterns , and causes of the geographical mobility of population within Scotland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and to compare the findings with work which has been done on other European countries , particularly England .
10 That was a lesson Stephen learned while playing in a succession of bands in London during the late '70s and , crucially , when he made his entry into the world of professional recording .
11 Housing classes can not be separated from wider social processes , particularly the high rate of immigration into Britain during the 1950s and 1960s .
12 In his early works he was very concerned with the problem of ‘ alienation ’ and the ‘ essence of man ’ and even in Capital it is impossible not to be moved in reading his account of conditions in England during the first half of the nineteenth century .
13 Pitt , who had led the attacks on a policy of commitment to Hanover during the war of the Austrian Succession , returned to the same line of denunciation .
14 WARSAW ( AFP ) — The Polish government is to take legal action against those responsible for torturing and murdering thousands of people in Poland during the Stalinist era .
15 But Mabel 's picture of life in Whitby during the jet era 100 years ago will open many eyes .
16 Henry of Huntingdon had in his youth heard very old men speak of the slaughter of Danes in England during the massacre of St Brice 's Day in 1002 , but neither he , nor his contemporaries Florence and William of Malmesbury , relied solely on such evidence .
17 Soldiers had since picked up the habit of wine-drinking in France during the war and upon returning to England had educated the middle classes , further increasing the popularity of Champagne in the immediate post-war years .
18 All the reports agreed that there had been a gradual but marked increase in the intensity of activity on Krakatoa during the three days preceding the twenty-sixth .
19 There followed a series of raids on Kharg during the rest of August and September .
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