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 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 withdrawal they were attacked by Ghilzai tribesmen and in running battles through the snowbound passes nearly the entire column of 4, 500 troops and 12, 000 camp followers were killed.

During a taping of Mason's monologue Sullivan, off camera, gestured that Mason should wrap things up by giving him two fingers, meaning " two minutes left ", as the show was suddenly shown live following an abbreviated address by President Lyndon Johnson, which was expected to preempt the entire show.

During the winter, the Great Auk migrated south either in pairs or in small groups, and never with the entire nesting colony.

During the next 750 years, independent Muslim states were established, and the entire area of Muslim control became known as Al-Andalus.

During its early history, Christianity grew from a 1st-century Jewish following to a religion that existed across the entire Greco-Roman world and beyond.

During this time, Many former employees of the closed Indiana plant moved to Fenton for employment ; so many, in fact, that entire subdivisions of new homes sprang up south of the plant, near what was then US Route 66.

During the Minchah prayer, the haftarah reading features the entire Book of Jonah.

During the " The Dark Phoenix Saga ", Phoenix becomes overwhelmed and corrupted by her first taste of evil and transforms into a force of total destruction, called " Dark Phoenix ", consuming a star, inadvertently killing the inhabitants of the star's solar system, and jeopardizing the entire universe.

During the same month the entire government resigned, accepting blame for the loss of life during the protests earlier in the year.

During the entire war around 1, 200 scouting flights were made.

During the War of 1812, Oliver Hazard Perry captured an entire British fleet in 1813 near Put-in-Bay, Ohio, despite having inferior numbers.

During a train-ride through a flooded area where an entire tribe was said to have seen the dinosaur, the locomotive suddenly derailed and turned over.

During each night of prayers, which can last for up to two hours each night, usually one member of the community who has memorized the entire Quran ( a Hafiz ) will recite a segment of the book.

During that period Christian kingdoms gradually took control over the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim kingdoms and with the fall of the Granadian emirate, the entire Iberian Peninsula was brought under Christian rule, while native Mozarabic Christian practices held for centuries in Muslim-ruled territory were first suppressed as early as 1080, by Alfonso VI of Castile, as Roman-rite Christian kingdoms advanced south.

During the peak of the battle, ARVN had access to only one 105 mm howitzer to provide close support while the enemy attack was backed by an entire artillery division.

During this short interval a supernova can radiate as much energy as the Sun is expected to emit over its entire life span.

During the 1967 Six-Day War, the entire West Bank was captured by Israel.

During this entire time stone remained in use in parallel with the metals for some objects, including those also used in the Neolithic, such as stone pottery.

During the later stages of World War II, the entire Cold War, and to a lesser extent afterwards, uranium-235 has been used as the fissile explosive material to produce nuclear weapons.

During World War II, Stalin exiled entire national groups from the Caucasus and the Crimea to Uzbekistan to prevent " subversive " activity against the war effort.

During the 1940s Sporting events were disrupted and changed by the events that engaged and shaped the entire world.

During Nicolae Ceaușescu's leadership ( 1965 – 1989 ), much of the historic part of the city was demolished and replaced with Socialist realist development such as the Centrul Civic ( the Civic Centre ), including the Palace of the Parliament, where an entire historic quarter was razed to make way for Ceaușescu's megalomaniac constructions.

During Ahab's reign, Moab, which had been conquered by his father, remained tributary ; while Judah, with whose king, Jehoshaphat, he was allied by marriage, was probably his vassal.

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 the reign of Caligula, coins like the one pictured here were issued depicting his three sisters, Drusilla, Livilla and Agrippina the Younger.

During the remainder of Nero's reign, Agrippina's grave was not covered or enclosed.

During his reign the Lombards ended their migrations by settling in Italy, the northern part of which Alboin conquered between 569 and 572.

During his reign, Poland suffered much humiliation at the hands of her subject principality, Moldavia.

During Alexius II's reign, the Byzantine Empire was invaded by King Bela III losing Syrmia and Bosnia to the Kingdom of Hungary in AD 1181, later even Dalmatia was lost to the Venetians.

During his short reign, peace was established both at home and abroad, finances were well regulated, and the various administrative services were placed on a basis that afterwards enabled Spain to pass through the disastrous war with the United States without the threat of a revolution.

During his reign, Spain lost its last colonies in the Americas ( Cuba and Puerto Rico ) and the Philippines ; fought and, after several setbacks, won a war in Morocco ; witnessed the start of the Spanish Generation of 1927, and endured the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera.

During his brother's reign, he participated in the taking of Huesca ( the Battle of Alcoraz, 1096 ), which became the largest city in the kingdom and the new capital.

During the reign of his father, he was the procurator general of the Crown.

During his long reign, the central power and royal authority potentially weakened.

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

During his reign, Jerusalem became more closely allied with the Byzantine Empire, and the two states launched an unsuccessful invasion of Egypt.

During Baldwin III's reign, the County of Edessa, the first crusader state established during the First Crusade, was conquered by Zengi, the Turkic emir of Aleppo.

During the English Reformation the Church of England broke away from the authority of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, at first temporarily under Henry VIII and Edward VI and later permanently during the reign of Elizabeth I.

During the Bourbon Restoration, construction was halted and it would not be completed until the reign of King Louis-Philippe, between 1833 and 1836, by the architects Goust, then Huyot, under the direction of Héricart de Thury.

During the first years of the reign of his older brother as Elector, Anton was the third in line, preceded only by his older brother Karl.

During his reign, Bayezid II consolidated the Ottoman Empire and thwarted a Safavid rebellion soon before abdicating his throne to his son, Selim I.

During the 17th century, under the reign of Christian IV, it became a significant regional centre.

During Justinian I's reign, the city's population reached about 500, 000 people.

During his reign the Empire conquered Thrace, Noricum, Pamphylia, Lycia and Judaea, and began the conquest of Britain.

During his reign, Claudius revived the rumor that his father Drusus was actually the illegitimate son of Augustus, to give the false appearance that Augustus was Claudius ' paternal grandfather.

During his reign, Saladin also constructed the Cairo Citadel, which served as the seat of the Egyptian government until the mid-19th century.

During his reign as king of Aquilonia, Conan was "... a tall man, mightily shouldered and deep of chest, with a massive corded neck and heavily muscled limbs.