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 his entire reign, Taylor had to fight insurgencies against his government.

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 the war, we set up schools for the teaching of psychological warfare, which included the teaching of propaganda, both black and white and the various shades of grey in between.

During the war it was in constant use by the wagon trains transporting supplies from the railhead at Grafton to the troops operating in the interior.

During the five-month lull, civil war smoldered and flickered throughout the Congo.

During the war, Congress exercised an unprecedented level of political, diplomatic, military and economic authority.

During Angola's civil war Cuban forces fought to install a Marxist-Leninist MPLA-PT government, against Western-backed UNITA and FLNA guerrillas and the South-African army.

During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.

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 the civil war following the death of Eric III of Denmark in 1146, Absalon travelled abroad to study theology in Paris, while Esbern fought for Valdemar's ascension to the throne.

During the Danish civil war, Denmark had been open to coastal raids by the Wends.

During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, many of the existing buildings in the area of the Acropolis were repaired, due to damage from age, and occasionally, war.

During the war years aircraft components were produced.

During the 1st World War British prisoners of war who had been captured at Gallipoli were housed here in an empty Armenian church at the foot of the rock.

During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Nimzowitsch was in the Baltic war zone.

During the war, Nin sent her books to Frances Steloff of the Gotham Book Mart in New York for safekeeping.

During the Civil War, the Confederate army established Camp Sumter to house incoming Union prisoners of war.

During the war, Pakistan supported Bosnia while providing technical and military support to Bosnia.

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 Japanese occupation, the Dayaks played a role in guerilla warfare against the occupying forces, particularly in the Kapit Division, where headhunting was temporarily revived towards the end of the war.

During the First World War, on the Western front, the two sides had been locked in a trench war, where kill zones by overlapping fire of machine guns and barbed wire prevented either side from breaking through.

During the war, the Condor Legion undertook the bombing of Guernica which had a tremendous psychological effect on the populations of Europe.

During the First World War the German army used horses for logistics, 1. 4 million of them, in the 1939 – 45 war it used 2. 7 million horses.

During World War II, the company diverted several resources to support the war effort and relinquished its West Coast markets to conserve rail car space.

During the war, an Army base, Camp Ashby, was temporarily sited in Berkeley.

During the 1892 – 1894 war between the Congo Free State and the Swahili-Arab city-states of Nyangwe and Kasongo in Eastern Congo, there were reports of widespread cannibalization of the bodies of defeated Arab combatants by the Batetela allies of Belgian commander Francis Dhanis.