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 his reign, there was a significant increase in the size of the Mughal Empire, half a dozen rebellions were crushed, prisoners of war were released, and the work of his father, Akbar, continued to flourish.

" During the same year, Jack Stillinger claimed that " Coleridge wrote only a few poems of the first rank – perhaps no more than a dozen, all told – and he seems to have taken a very casual attitude toward them ... he kept Kubla Khan in manuscript for nearly twenty years before offering it to the public ' rather as a psychological curiosity, than on the grounds of any supposed poetic merits '".

During that time the large dog I have mentioned received at least a dozen visits from his fellow-dogs, which would stop and chat with him a few moments, and then run off to their domiciles.

During the last three weeks, the Packers gave up an uncharacteristic total of 78 points, after having yielded only about a dozen points per game in their first 11 contests.

During the mid 1950s, Unwin did about a dozen of these shows and in the process met agent Johnnie Riscoe and daughter Patsy who were to become his managers for the rest of his career.

During the first weeks of the mail service, nearly a dozen Army pilots were killed.

During this time perhaps only a couple dozen buildings were built.

During the harvest season a half dozen or more fruit packers would rent space in the warehouse, among them were Scobel & Day, Simons & French, Earl Fruit Company, and the California Packing Corporation.

During this campaign he flew over two dozen combat missions over Tunisia, Italy, Sardinia, Sicily, and Panteileria to obtain firsthand information.

During this period he cut well over a dozen R & B, soul, and blues singles such as " Something Working Baby " and " Soul Christmas ", without much success.

During this time, he had about a dozen papers published in medical and psychoanalytic journals, including a 1930 paper which was the first to suggest that epilepsy is characterised by abnormal encephalograms, knowledge which would become the cornerstone of diagnostic testing for epilepsy.

During the Met's early years, the company annually presented a dozen or more opera performances in Philadelphia throughout the season.

" During a recent segment concerning a Tony Robbins ’ Fire walk experience in San Jose, California, we reported more than two dozen participants were hospitalized with burns.

During this period, the U. S. Post Office issued more than a dozen ' Two Cent Reds ' commemorating the 150th anniversaries of Battles and Events that occurred during the American Revolution.

During her tenure with The Vandellas, they scored over a dozen hit singles, including " Nowhere to Run ", " Jimmy Mack ", and their signature " Dancing In The Street ".

During his first appearance in 1996, Bugs said he had taken a dozen Polaroid photos of the creatures he would be willing to send to Bell.

During the half-century that Bournonville led the company ( 1828-1879 ), he choreographed some fifty ballets, of which about a dozen are still part of the company's repertoire.

During the years at Fontenay-sous-Bois, the Stareviches made two dozen films.

During the heated indoor season, October – mid-April, the Wasserfest area is enclosed and features a dozen heated attractions.

During a wet year Cooper Creek may flood more than a half a dozen times, during the dry it becomes a chain of waterholes.

During his short flying career, Lilienthal developed a good dozen of models ( monoplanes, wing flapping aircraft and two biplanes ).

During breeding it is fairly territorial ; in winter, it roams the lands in groups of about a handful of birds, and sometimes in larger flocks of a dozen or more.

During the following few years he would contract with over a dozen other publishers to produce many dozens of individual books and two anthology series, the four-book Continuum and two-book Frontiers.

During a sojourn of slightly more than three months Chamberlain Littlepage could see action on both elements.

During the Seventies the projections show a more pronounced rise to an annual rate of 1,338,000 in the second half of that decade.

During the nineteenth century these views were protested by virtually all the Latin American writers, though ineffectively, just as the new nations of Africa and Asia protest them, with more effect, today.

During early childhood, children are more interested in the approval of their parents and teachers than they are in the approval of other children ; ;

During early childhood boys tease and bully, on the average, more than girls ; ;

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 this same period, slave-holding border states had more free African-Americans and European immigrants than the lower South, which increased Southern fears that slavery was threatened with rapid extinction in this area.

During the post-World War I period ski-lifts were built in Swiss and Austrian towns to accommodate winter visitors, but summer tourism continued to be important ; by the mid-20th century the popularity of downhill skiing increased greatly as it became more accessible and in the 1970s several new villages were built in France devoted almost exclusively to skiing, such a Les Menuires.

During this project he realized that a much more general design, the Analytical Engine, was possible.

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

During development, engineers had made the decision to use the Zilog 8530 serial controller chip ( SCC ) instead of the lower cost and more common UART to provide serial port connections.

During the next five years, two more non-Victorian teams, Fremantle and Port Adelaide, joined the league.

During Mbeki's presidency, the government took a more pro-capitalist stance, often running counter to the demands of the South African Communist Party and COSATU.

During the more recent Modern era and in the Post-Modern period the artillery crew has used wheeled or tracked vehicles as a mode of transportation.

During the Constitutional conventional of 1988, the subject came back to the quarrel and one more time it was filed.

During the Civil war, soldiers from different parts of the United States played baseball together, leading to a more unified national version of the sport.

During the early centuries of Christianity the title " pope " was applied generally to all bishops ; it now has more specific meanings that vary between churches.

During sexual arousal, breast size increases, venous patterns across the breasts become more visible, and nipples harden.

During periods of major depression or mania ( in BPI ), functioning was on average poor, with depression being more persistently associated with disability than mania.

During the latter part of his career, Lancaster left adventure and acrobatic movies behind and portrayed more distinguished characters.

During a major news event one or more of the main news presenters may be sent to present live for the channel from the scene of the story, where they will conduct interviews with the people involved, question correspondents, introduce related reports and also give general information on the story, much as a reporter sent to cover a story would.

During recent times, mainly during the apartheid reform and post-1994 eras, many more white Afrikaans-speaking people, mainly with " conservative " political views and of Trekboer and Voortrekker descent, have preferred to be called " Boers " or Boere-Afrikaners, rather than " Afrikaners ".

During this period, the harsh rule of the Spanish loyalists, who punished suspected rebels, drove more and more Chileans into the insurrectionary camp.

During the period January 1, 1980, to December 31, 1996, spending a total time of three months or more in the Channel Islands, England, the Falkland Islands, the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales precludes individuals from donating.