During the first half of 2008, Armenia's widening current-account trade deficit grew by 66 percent to $ 1. 39 billion USD, with a 40 percent rise in imports.

During the 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign, Clinton vigorously advocated on behalf of his wife, Hillary Clinton.

During his post-ABBA career Andersson won four Swedish Grammis awards, and together with Ulvaeus received the " Special International " Ivor Novello award from ' The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters ', twice " The Music Export Prize " from the Swedish Ministry of Industry and Trade ( 2008 ), as well as the " Lifetime Achievement " award from the Swedish Music Publishers Association ( SMFF ).

During the 2008 United States presidential election, she branded the Republican Party vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin as " stupid " and a " disgrace to women ".

During the Orioles ' heyday in the 1970s, a club song, appropriately titled " Orioles Magic ", was composed, and played when the team ran out until Opening Day of 2008.

During the 2008 Canadian parliamentary dispute, two of Canada's opposition parties signed an agreement to form what would become the country's second coalition government since Confederation if the minority Conservative government was defeated on a vote of non-confidence ; unseating Stephen Harper as Prime Minister.

During the 2008 regular season, the Cardinals traveled to play the Panthers and took a 17-3 lead at halftime, but the Panthers rallied in the 3rd and 4th quarters to win.

During the Fiscal Year 2008, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing delivered 7. 7 billion notes at an average cost of 6. 4 cents per note.

During periods of particularly high demand for ammunition, such as after the November 2008 election of President Barack Obama, or after the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban in that country, factory ammunition can become considerably more expensive or even unavailable in stores.

During the first decade of the new century, hedge funds regained popularity worldwide and in 2008, the worldwide industry held US $ 1. 93 trillion in assets under management.

During the 2008 Democratic presidential primaries, Lynch was one of eight superdelegates from New Hampshire.

During their marriage, several of Grammer and Donatacci's homes were featured in magazines, including ones in: Malibu, California ( February 2001, InStyle ), Maui ( May 2004, InStyle ), Long Island, New York ( April 2008, InStyle ), Bachelor Gulch, Colorado ( Architectural Digest ), and Bel Air, Los Angeles ( Architectural Digest ).

During the 2008 – 09 season Liverpool achieved 86 points, its highest Premier League points total, and finished as runners up to Manchester United.

During the season, the Vikings had many distractions, including trading for Randy Moss and then waiving him only a month later, Brett Favre's NFL investigation for allegedly sending inappropriate text messages to Jets ' employee Jenn Sterger while he was with the team in 2008, the Metrodome's collapse and resulting venue changes, and finally head coach Brad Childress ' firing on November 22 following a 31 – 3 loss at the hands of the rival Green Bay Packers.

During the 1990s and until 2008, the country was in civil strife.

During the crop year 2008, many of the certified organic potatoes produced in the United Kingdom and certified by the Soil Association as organic were sprayed with a copper pesticide to control potato blight ( Phytophthora infestans ).

During a 2008 interview with the BBC, Major General Qian Lihua, a senior Chinese defense official, stated that the PLAN aspired to possess a small number of aircraft carriers to allow it to expand China's air defense perimeter.

During the 2008 presidential election, King voiced his support for Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

During the November 2008 trial on the lawsuit, a former member of the IKA said that the Klan head told him to kill Dees.

During the period October 2007-October 2008 Spain had its unemployment rate climbing 37 %, exceeding the unemployment surge of past economic crises like 1993.

During the All-Star festivities at Yankee Stadium, Hamilton crushed a first round home run record in the 2008 Home Run Derby with 28.

During Putin's first premiership and presidency ( 1999 – 2008 ), real incomes increased by a factor of 2. 5, real wages more than tripled ; unemployment and poverty more than halved and the Russians ' self-assessed life satisfaction rose significantly.

During May and June 2008, Zanzibar suffered a major failure of its electricity system, which left the island without electricity for nearly a month.

During 2003, the price rose above $ 30, reached $ 60 by August 11, 2005, and peaked at $ 147. 30 in July 2008.

* During the decade, Windows 2000 And Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2003 And Windows vista And Microsoft Office 2008 And Then Windows 7 become the ubiquitous industry standards in personal computer software until the end of the decade, when Apple began to slowly gain market share.

During the hottest part of the day, of course, the sun comes straight down and there isn't any shade ''.

During the decade that followed, the common man, as that piece put it, grew uncomfortable as the Voice of God and fled from behind Saint Woodrow ( Wilson ) only to learn from Science, to his shocked relief that after all there was no God he had to speak for and that he was just an animal anyhow -- that there was a chemical formula for him, and that too much couldn't be expected of him.

During one recent day of driving about Los Angeles there were actually a dozen occasions when oncoming drivers stopped an entire lane of traffic to permit me to pull out of an impossible side street.

During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 139 military and civilian students who came to the Institute for varying periods of special instruction.

During fiscal years 1959 and 1960, there were 795,586 visitors to the Museum.

During much of the year the general level of business activity has moved along on a record-high plateau, but there have been persistent signs of slack in the economy.

During the month of November hardly a day passed when there was not some mention of John Brown in the Rhode Island newspapers.

During the 1950s there were as many as 25,000 schools in the Congo.

During about three and a half months of the year, in the summer, there are three boats that run from the mainland to the Island carrying passengers, food, and cars ; ;

During the 1970s and 1990s, there was an epistemological shift away from the positivist traditions that had largely informed the discipline.

During Christie and Mallowan's time in the Middle East, along with their time spent among the many tombs, temples, and museums, there was also a large amount of time spent traveling to and from Mallowan's sites.

During Darnley ’ s lifetime there was little public knowledge of the urn, and no record of a published photograph exists before 1921.

During each winter there is usually one fall of snow in the south and two in the north ; but the snow quickly disappears, and sometimes, during an entire winter, the ground is not covered with snow.

During the 3rd millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism.

During the 3rd millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism.

During the 4th century BC, there may well have been some 250, 000 – 300, 000 people in Attica.

During the third millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism.

During the Neolithic Revolution, which occurred during the early Holocene, there were at least two aurochs domestication events: one related to the Indian subspecies, leading to Zebu cattle ; the other one related to the Eurasian subspecies, leading to taurine cattle.

During apartheid there was violence between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party.

During the monsoon there are frequent heavy rains and thunderstorms but flooding is not a common occurrence.

During his time at al-Farooq, there is a curious mention under Mushabib al-Hamlan's details that Nami had recently had laser eye surgery, an uncited fact that does not reappear.

During the 18th century there were many innovations in the design of timber bridges by Hans Ulrich, Johannes Grubenmann, and others.

During the time of the Judges when there was a famine, an Israelite family from Bethlehem — Elimelech, his wife Naomi, and their sons Mahlon and Chilion — emigrate to the nearby country of Moab.

During the Exile many Jews were taken to Babylon, where the prophets told them to make their homes (), suggesting they would spend a long period of time there.