Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun prp] during the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ned Corvan was a song-writer , fiddler and performer in the working-class concert halls and pubs of Tyne side in North-East England during the 1850s and early 1860s ; in his final years he also worked in the first of the new kind of music halls , owned by commercially ambitious entrepreneurs and orientated more towards a nationally organized market and production system . |
| 2 | William said it was the best political occasion he could remember since he had heard Aneurin Bevan speak in South Wales during the war . |
| 3 | In south Yorkshire during the forties , we were particularly disapproving of the sort of woman who ‘ puts on every bit of cheap jewellery that she 's got ’ . |
| 4 | Abandoning art after 1914 , she established a number of clinics and a day nursery in east London during the war . |
| 5 | Mineralisation occurred in North Wales during the Lower Palaeozoic with the formation of the Coed y Brenin porphyry copper deposit in Cambrian diorite and the Parys Mountain Cu-Pb-Zn volcanogenic massive sulphide deposit in Ordovician volcanic and sedimentary rocks . |
| 6 | The highlights for me were the climax of Britannia 's stately progress through the Fleet lines and my own personal visit to the reception for Commanding Officers on board Britannia during the evening . |
| 7 | Although the military were used more sparingly than in period one — the government intervened to prevent their use in the South Wales coal dispute of 1910 , for example — they were despatched to South Wales during the national railway strike of 1911 , when fears of imminent revolution were rife . |
| 8 | At Pembroke College was Edward Wynn , one of the kindest dons to grace Cambridge during the twentieth century , and another member of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd . |
| 9 | As a result twenty-nine food ships — the organizing of which proved to be a good way of strengthening support , were sent to Republican Spain during the three years of the civil war . |
| 10 | When elite theory crossed the Atlantic to North America during the 1920s , it was transformed in a rather unexpected way . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm an ex-Navy man actually , although sea legs are not something you acquire and never lose , ’ said Mr Fulton , who survived the sinking of HMS Ibis off North Africa during the Second World War . |