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during

If you do something during something else, you do it at the same time. He often reads during dinner. I'm always tired because I work during the night.

during

For all of a given time interval. within a given time interval

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Simple sentences

Thank you for the time you spent with me during my visit to Atlanta.
A fire broke out during the night.
Tom cried during his son's graduation.
He was a soldier during the war.
Tom took notes during class.
During the morning I feel very lazy, I don't want to do anything.
The days most wasted are those during which we have not laughed.
The sun shines during the day; the moon during the night.
I played golf every day during my vacation.
Tom returned to his hometown to visit his parents during the summer break.
No talking during the test, people.
During the 60s and 70s, similar events occurred in Europe, although on a lesser scale.
During the last Ice Age, so much water was trapped in icy glaciers that the sea level dropped by as much as 120 meters.
I slept a little during lunch break because I was so tired.
During summer breaks, I ate dinner at midnight.
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
During winter I sleep with two blankets.
During the vacation my sister and I stayed at a small village at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
I did nothing during the holidays.
During the press conference, the President touched on foreign relations.
Students must keep silent during a class.
No admittance during the performance.
I visited Hokkaido during summer vacation.
Did you go anywhere during the summer vacation?
During the summer vacation, I made friends with many villagers.
I worked in a post office during the summer vacation.
I feel indebted to you for your help during my illness.
I spent idle days during the vacation.
Tourists poured into Karuizawa during the summer vacation.

Movie subtitles

During the contract, that's what I heard.
During the time an examination lasted, the only movement allowed was the passage of servants, replenishing food and water supplies, or removing human waste.
Of course, the sins she committed during her life time are calculated seperately.
For the person who was alive during the death and was dead during the life, allow the living body and dead heart!
What we'll be doing here is different than just using bokken. often used during practice matches Itakura will come!
Time. I need to get in during the pulse check.
I was just sitting here thinking about you, and, you know, how amazing you've been during this painful, awful time.
You have to go to each room at least once during the evening, and there is strategy.
You came across Declan and Scarlett during the evening.
Do you think they ate the pie before, during or after the murder?
Meanwhile, as we try to discuss lighter matters during recreation, perhaps I may ask Nurse Franklin the purpose of her manicure?
Douglas Bader, the pilot, was a patient here during World War II.
Most of their mothers took Distaval or other medicines containing thalidomide during the very early weeks of pregnancy.
But back then there was only a small number of participants, because students could not attend and also because travel was difficult during the war.
And at the Technical School at Delft, no engineers had been trained during the war.
No surprise, because the Americans had a huge advance because they had a lot of experience with microwave techniques, which they had developed during the war.
There were always three students, one observed during the day, one during the evening and another during the night.
I supported them during the day and evening.
That was during King Louis-Philippe's reign.
Friends, this liberty tree is just like those we planted in France during the '48 revolution, a symbol of our faith in the republic.
Judging by your stripes, you didn't do too badly during these hard times.
You didn't do too badly during these hard times.
During the Tafna peace, Odilon was Abdelkader's doctor.
During the play.
I saw her during the play. I helped her open the door to the roof.
They helped us during the 625 Korean War, how can we-- Oh, you guys are from the North so you're probably not clear about it.
You have the right to consult to the lawyer, and have that lawyer present during any questioning. If you choose to talk to the police officer, you have the right to stop the interview at any time.
A bail on John Mayer will have a big influence on the trial. He'll definitely escape to the third country during his bail.
During the Inspector's absence, I will be making some organizational. changes. that I believe will make our operations run more effectively, starting with our filing system.
During Pistachio's training run.
And where were you during Pistachio's training run?
During the Middle Ages, devils and Hell were considered real and constantly feared.
It was a general belief that the witch was naked when, at night, during the so-called Witch Sabbath, she danced with the devils.
In this way begins the endless turn of the wheels during the witchcraft era.
During the witchcraft era it was dangerous to be old and ugly, but it was not safe to be young and pretty either.
Many women, for instance, confess that - transformed into cats - they soiled the altar during the night, while two devils in the shape of animals stood guard at the church door.

News and current affairs

Even the United States abrogated indexation clauses in bond contracts during the Great Depression of the 1930's.
The rot began during the 1980s, under Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.
Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940's during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and conviction.
Crown Prince Abdullah's initiative is meant to be made official during a speech at the Arab League summit in Beirut of 27-28 March.
Indeed, during the past 20 years, they actually cut aid for agriculture programs, and only now are reversing course.
Bottom trawling should simply be outlawed; it would be simple and inexpensive to compensate the fishing industry during a transition to other activities.
The data are uncertain: there have been many thousands of spills during this period - often poorly documented and their magnitude hidden or simply unmeasured by either the companies or the government.
Instead, I believe that the most important way to reawaken voters' interest in European elections will be to open up the election of the Commission's President to them, and create a genuinely Europe-wide political debate during the next election campaign.
In principle, an independent fiscal council could have provided invaluable help during the financial crisis.
Because it will take time to collect revenues from the regional VAT, the EU should provide financial help during the transition.
It had an antecedent, that is, a lack of pre-emptive resistance at home and abroad to the threat that built up in Nazi Germany during the 1930's.
Suddenly, everyone saw just how much America's system of corporate surveillance and control had deteriorated during the bubble of the 1990s.
The second was the decade of successful business-cycle management by Alan Greenspan's independent, apolitical, and technocratic Fed during the 1990s.
During the last two decades, consumption drove these countries' economic growth, reaching historically high GDP shares.
Even the United States abrogated indexation clauses in bond contracts during the Great Depression of the 1930's. So it can happen anywhere.
During 2002-2006, I led the United Nations Millennium Project, which aimed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, for then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Both have saved millions of lives during the past decade, and have paved the way to a new more efficient and scientifically sound method of development assistance.
Likewise, India is all in a quandary over how to handle protocol during Sarkozy's impending visit to the subcontinent as the guest of honor at the country's Republic Day celebrations on January 26.
The second key challenge that we will face during our European presidency is that of Russia.
Moreover, unlike Mandela during his 27-year imprisonment, Suu Kyi has had her hopes raised - and dashed - before.
During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.

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