Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [noun] 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 ‘ I can imagine , ’ said Dotty , who had served in Bomber Command during the war .
3 The question of cycling proficiency tests was discussed and it was agreed to try to arrange such a course in Juniper Green during the October holiday break .
4 Intensive farming techniques had led to a rapid decline in hare numbers during the 1960s and 70s , as traditional hare habitats were destroyed .
5 The remaining SDR44,840,000 ( $60,000,000 ) was available immediately under the compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) to cover the excess cost of oil imports and a shortfall in export earnings during the 12-month period which ended in March 1991 .
6 Pham told delegates that there had been a rapid increase in export turnover during the first half of 1990 , but that the production of export goods was threatened by the major socio-economic changes in Eastern Europe , which had forced some countries to cancel contracts , and that " the dilatory payment and overdue debts to the export goods manufacturers fail to encourage the production of export goods " .
7 The rise in equity prices during the 1980s , made it relatively easy to float new issues , and this gave an impetus to equity financing .
8 Many anglers are hailing it as the most significant advance in fishing tackle during the past 20 years and Dave Chilton , the man who has popularised its use , believes that the line , made from the world 's strongest man-made fibre ( Lancia uses it to strengthen the internal bodywork of its cars ) , may revolutionise all branches of the sport .
9 Why does he not give the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) a copy of last month 's Department of Employment gazette , which shows that the rise in telecommunication charges during the past year has been 7 per cent .
10 William said it was the best political occasion he could remember since he had heard Aneurin Bevan speak in South Wales during the war .
11 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 ’ .
12 Ceps , morels and other wild fungi were previously only to be found in specialist shops during the picking season ( from August to October ) .
13 Agriculture was briefly disrupted and a manufacturing recession , exacerbated by a drop in military orders after the Crimean War , a severe financial crisis in 1858 , and a fall in cotton imports during the American Civil War , was only overcome in the mid 1860s .
14 Director Brian Waller said the letters would warn the authorities that the named individuals who worked in child care during the Beck years may be a cause for concern .
15 Measurements of bismuth in serum samples during the trial enabled us to monitor whether significant accumulation occurred .
16 The study found that the subsequent increase in tax revenue during the period to 1985/6 could be explained mostly by factors such as employment growth , growth of earnings and growth of self-employment rather than by any ‘ incentive ’ effects .
17 As part of an international group , Korn/Ferry 's accounts have been filed at Companies ' House , which show an impressive rise in fee income during the present decade .
18 The fall in record sales during the 1980s has damaged the newer sector of the industry more than the major companies .
19 The long-term trends in population redistribution during the latter half of the twentieth century have broadly been serving to undo the principal features of population change in the nineteenth century when the North 's share of national population increased and people concentrated into the major urban and industrial agglomerations .
20 I 've already briefly referred to item ten , and that is we 've had to increase the numbers in registration inspection during the current year , and that demand will continue , there is no provision in the base for the ongoing costs for staff who 're appointed .
21 The third presence in this Unholy Trinity of forces pulling the Third World downhill is the catastrophic decline in commodity prices during the 1980s .
22 There was a more dramatic drop in refining margins over the past two years — from $5 to $2.88 a barrel in Europe and $2.71 to $1.75 in the US — reflecting competitive conditions in product marketing during the recession .
23 The most important source of infection for the lamb crop is undoubtedly the increase in nematode eggs in ewe faeces during the PPR and prophylaxis will only be efficient if this is kept to a minimum .
24 When Stewart said the boom in consumer credit during the previous decade had been phenomenal and some said dangerous , the danger to which he was alluding was not to the consumer/borrower who might incur overindebtedness , but to the professional finance houses .
25 Mr Tsurumaki made his initial fortune in steel trading during the Korean War boom .
26 With the great increase in observer activity during the period there is no reason to doubt that the decline evident since 1956 is anything but real .
27 The election is so close that the slightest shift in voter opinion during the next 80 to 90 hours not only could , but probably would , determine the outcome .
28 If it was widespread and intensive , and involved the building of raised planting platforms on a large scale , as some archaeologists have suggested , it could explain the growth of population in lowland areas during the Classic period .
29 The airlines that fly between them were hit much less severely than American and European rivals by the slump in air travel during the Gulf war and they are bouncing back more quickly .
30 I have received the recent excellent report by the CBI 's manufacturing advisory group which showed that there has been a transformation in manufacturing performance during the 1980s .
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