During the making recently of an important Biblical film, some 40 volumes of research material and sketches not only of costumes and interiors, but of architectural developments, sports arenas, vehicles, and other paraphernalia were compiled, consulted, and complied with.

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 winter of 1939 – 40, Hitler decreased the size of the fighting manpower in order to return as many skilled workers to the factories as was possible.

During the 1940s and 50s the attendance was often above 40, 000, and Charlton had one of the largest support bases in the country.

During this time he also created Man Seated with Travel Bag ( c. 1938 – 40 ), showing the seedy and bleak environment, contrasting with work like the racially charged Vaudeville ( c. 1930 ) and its caricature style of a man in blackface.

* During World War II, the secret protocol in Molotov-Ribbentrop pact enabled Winter War ( 1939 – 40 ), a Soviet attack on Finland.

During this period, the Japanese population grew to over 100, 000 throughout Micronesia, while the indigenous population was about 40, 000.

During the First World War, Britain's Army and Navy had separate signals intelligence agencies, MI1b and NID25 ( initially known as Room 40 ) respectively.

During World War II, the British at Bletchley Park ( 40 miles north of London ) achieved a number of successes at breaking encrypted German military communications.

During these 40 years, the primary aim of the labour unions was not to benefit the workers, but to carry out the state's economic policy under their cosy relationship with the ruling party.

During the Powerboat P1 World Championship era, which spanned 2003 to 2009, there was 40 % more horsepower on a P1 starting grid than Formula 1.

During the 5 years of civil war that culminated in the 1994 genocide, GDP declined in 3 out of 5 years, posting a dramatic decline at more than 40 % in 1994, the year of the genocide.

During this same period, silver gradually ceased to be used in circulating coins ; the United States minted its last circulating silver coin in 1970 in its 40 % half-dollar.

During the last four decades Spain's foreign tourist industry has grown into the second biggest in the world and was worth approximately 40 billion Euros, about 5 % of GDP, in 2006.

During Solomon's long reign of 40 years, the Israelite monarchy, according to the Bible, gained its highest splendour and wealth.

During the War of the Second Coalition ( 1799 – 1801 ), Britain occupied most of the French and Dutch colonies ( the Netherlands had been a satellite of France since 1796 ), but tropical diseases claimed the lives of over 40, 000 troops.

During the first 40 years, the raids were conducted by small, mobile Viking groups.

During the ensuing Thirty Years ' War, the city was occupied by Saxon and Swedish troops, and lost 18, 000 of 40, 000 citizens to plague.

During one 30-year period within the Maunder Minimum, astronomers observed only about 50 sunspots, as opposed to a more typical 40, 000 – 50, 000 spots in modern times.

During World War II, about 40 % of buildings in the city were destroyed by Allied bombing, as were many other German cities and industrial centres.

During the Roman civil war between Mark Antony and Octavian ( 40 BC ), the city of Perugia supported Antony and was almost completely destroyed by the latter.

During his 40 years in national politics, Webster served in the House of Representatives for 10 years ( representing New Hampshire ), in the Senate for 19 years ( representing Massachusetts ), and was appointed the Secretary of State under three presidents.

During one of his first sorties, Gorton was involved in a brief dogfight over the South China Sea, after which he suffered engine failure and was forced to land on Bintan island, 40 km ( 25 mi ) south east of Singapore.

During the retreat, membership in the party fell from 300, 000 to around 40, 000.

During the 40 years of Dutch colonial rule of Taiwan, many Han Chinese from the Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Hakka regions of mainland China were recruited to help develop Taiwan.

During these years the youthful conductor had contributed greatly to the high level of musical life in Germany.

During the greater part of Jefferson's career he enjoyed the close collaboration of a fellow Virginian, James Madison, eight years his junior.

During the next five years the leaders of the Fair Deal reluctantly backed down from the optimistic expectations of the New Deal.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

During the last years of Woodrow Wilson's administration, a red scare developed in our country.

During the next years he gave me the second of the five contracts I would sign with the Hearst Service.

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 these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

During these years the company's product line followed the basic tenets laid down by Mr. Brown.

About a quarter of Hardy's poems carry an appended date line, usually the year of completion, but sometimes inclusive years ( `` 1908 - 1910 '' ) or two separate dates when Hardy worked on the poem ( `` 1905 and 1926 '' ) or an approximate date ( `` During the War '' ).

During the poetically sterile years he was writing novels at the rate of almost one a year and was, in addition, burdened with bad health ( he spent six months in bed in 1881, too ill to do more than work slowly and painfully at A Laodicean ).

During the years of publication, supplement and replacement sheets were issued periodically.

During Dulles's first two years in office, while Republicans ran the Senate, the Department was at the mercy of men who had thirsted for its blood since 1945.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

During his five years as an assistant director, Kurosawa worked under numerous directors, but by far the most important figure in his development was Kajiro Yamamoto.

) During these years, Armenia occupied some 20 % of Azerbaijan's territory, rendering possibility of supplies from Azerbaijan an impossibility.

During the years 1106-1107 A. D., a Russian Orthodox Abbot named Daniel made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and recorded his experiences.

During the past 50 years, 7, 435 Schmidt camera plates were used to complete several sky surveys that make the data in USNO-B1. 0 accurate to within 0. 2 arcsec.

During the four years of his reign disaster followed on disaster, and in 1695 Ahmed II died at Edirne Palace, worn out by disease and sorrow.

During his 72 years of Imamat ( 1885 – 1957 ), the community celebrated his Golden ( 1937 ), Diamond ( 1946 ) and Platinum ( 1954 ) Jubilees.

During the next three years, Alexander seemed to renew his attempts to subdue the states of Thessaly, especially Magnesia and Phthiotis, for upon the expiry of the truce, in 364 BC, they again applied to Thebes for protection from him.

During the last twenty years of his life Alexios lost much of his popularity.

During his three years in this office, he " moved resolutely to eradicate all pro-Confederate influences in the state.

During the first years of his reign, Andrew was occupied with the discords within the Principality of Halych.