Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [noun pl] during " in BNC.

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1 The gastropods are one of many groups that record the faunal changes connected with the advance and retreat of the Ice Sheets during the Pleistocene .
2 ( 3 ) A change in the quality of sleep ( i.e. more time awake , increased Stage I , and sometimes reduced REM ) and a disruption of the normal temporal organization of the sleep stages during daytime sleep .
3 Born into society , she struggled against the hardships of the mining camps during the outbreak of Gold Fever in California .
4 The capital development of the broadcasting services during this five-year period improved the ability of radio to reach remote parts of the country and beyond but did nothing to improve two-way linkages between Dar es Salaam and the regions and districts .
5 The clock pulses are also input to the pulse deletion circuit , which blocks some of the clock signals during acceleration and deceleration .
6 By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement .
7 Keith Wrightson and David Levine were able to trace the ownership of about half the freehold and a quarter of the copyhold properties during the course of the seventeenth century .
8 The author of this celebrated Stuart cookery book was a professional cook whose father , also a professional , apprenticed him to Arthur Hollingsworth , cook and caterer to one of the City Guilds during the last years of the sixteenth century .
9 Croatia 's new right-wing government ( elected in April-May 1990 — see pp. 37381 ; 37463 ) had given assurances that individual and cultural rights were guaranteed to all people in the republic , However , for many Serbs the ascendancy of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) revived the fear of Croat nationalist extremism and the memory of atrocities committed against Serbs by the fascist Croat ustasha movement , which had governed Croatia as a puppet state of the Axis powers during the Second World War .
10 Partly in response to these criticisms , the Youth Training Board ( YTB ) carried out a review of the training schemes during the summer of 1984 .
11 In a footnote he does point to the aid they gave with money through the various aid-Spain funds but also derides this contribution , emphasising that ‘ the sum raised … would not equal five per cent of the turnover of the football pools during the same period . ’
12 While little direct evidence is available on the fate of the mountain populations during this period , there is little doubt they were too weak numerically and organizationally to put up any effective resistance to either power .
13 The image is formed by as many as 1.5 million individually addressed pixels which are defined on the surface of the glass sheets during processing .
14 And fancy your having complete charge of the Vicarage kids during the Easter hols , while their mother is in Hungary !
15 In the more remote regions population losses have been as high as 10 per cent in many of the intercensal periods during the twentieth century ( Dunn 1976 ) .
16 On the following day , however , a presidential commission investigating the role of the security forces during the November 1989 revolution published findings implicating Vacek , at that time Army Chief of Staff and First Deputy Defence Minister , in preparations by the Army high command to clamp down against the demonstrations which ultimately had overthrown the communist regime .
17 Private residential homes — especially for elderly people — have constituted one of the growth industries during the 1980s .
18 Mention was also made of the integration of the hospital services during the war , under the Emergency Hospital Scheme .
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