During Soviet times, Armenia's rail network connected to Russia's via Georgia through Abkhazia along the Black Sea.

During the Tsarist times, the Ainu living in Russia were forbidden from identifying themselves as such, since the Imperial Japanese officials had claimed that all the regions inhabited by the Ainu in the past or present, are a part of Japan.

During the Soviet times, people with Ainu surnames were sent to gulags and labor camps, as they were often mistaken for the Japanese.

During the times of Babylonia, tar-like glue was used for gluing statues.

During ancient times Aegina was a rival to Athens, the great sea power of the era.

During times of low demand, excess power can be stored in batteries for future use.

During the 1990s, she generated controversy by criticizing immigration, Islamization and Islam in France, and has been fined five times for " inciting racial hatred ".

During ancient Roman times the balteus ( plural baltei ) was a type of baldric commonly used to suspend a sword.

During the Battle of France in 1940, De Gaulle's 4th Armoured Division and elements of the British Expeditionary Force's 1st Army Tank Brigade both made probing attacks on the German flank, actually pushing into the rear of the advancing armoured columns at times.

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 early colonial times there were gold exports to Perú from placer deposits which soon depleted.

During pre-Islamic and early Islamic times, Central Asia was a predominantly Iranian region that included the sedentary Eastern Iranic speaking Bactrians, Sogdians and Chorasmians, and the semi-nomadic Scythians and Alans.

During wartime, a shipping convoy will have a ranking officer — sometimes an active-duty naval officer, at other times a civilian master or retired naval officer — designated as the convoy commodore.

During the 1984 and 1985 seasons, Earnhardt visited victory lane six times, at Talladega, Atlanta, Richmond, Bristol ( twice ), and Martinsville, where he finished fourth and eighth in the season standings, respectively.

During most of these times, deserts have grown and shrunk independent of human activities.

During his two years at Britannia, moored at Dartmouth, Devon, he was given twenty-five times for " minor offences " and beaten three times for more serious infractions.

During colonial times, the Spanish decided that El Salvador would produce and export indigo, but after the invention of synthetic dyes in the 19th century, Salvadoran authorities and the newly created modern state turned to coffee as the main export of the economy.

During the Dutch Revolt, Eindhoven changed hands between the Dutch and the Spanish several times during which it was burned down by renegade Spanish soldiers, until finally in 1583 it was captured once more by Spanish troops and its city walls were demolished.

During the early 1980s, Cossiga attacked several times the antimafia judges and spoke in favour of judge Corrado Carnevale, a member of the Corte di Cassazione ( Italy's supreme court ) who had annulled numerous sentences against mafia leaders and was later tried for these actions.

During her career at the Grand Guignol, Maxa's characters were murdered more than 10, 000 times in at least 60 different ways and raped at least 3, 000 times.

During the times of drought there wasn't enough water to make gazpacho.

" During Washington's last five years at Tuskegee, Carver submitted or threatened his resignation several times: when the administration reorganized the agriculture programs, when he disliked a teaching assignment, to manage an experiment station elsewhere, and when he did not get summer teaching assignments in 1913-1914.

During times of heavy rainfall, much of the savannah area is covered by shallow water, making transportation by means other than a shallow-draft boat almost impossible.

During the following centuries the monks from this monastery had an influencing effect on Portuguese culture.

During the Portuguese Colonial War in the 1960s and the 1970s, the Portuguese Army created an experimental horse platoon, to combat the guerrillas in eastern Angola.

During his trip, a tempest forced him to stop on an island near Guangzhou, China where he saw the rich merchant Diogo Pereira, an old friend from Cochin, who showed him a letter from Portuguese being held prisoners in Guangzhou asking for a Portuguese ambassador to talk to the Chinese Emperor in their favor.

During the first five years of Humayun's reign, these two rulers were quietly extending their rule, although Sultan Bahadur faced pressure in the east from sporadic conflicts with the Portuguese.

During the latter part of the 1660s, the Portuguese tried to gain control of Kongo.

During the 16th century the Portuguese were able to establish permanent markets up the Zambezi River in an attempt to gain political and military control of Mutapa.

During this time, the Portuguese government effectively abandoned the territory, and did not resume the decolonisation process.

During the rule of the Mughal administrator of Sindh, Mirza Ghazi Beg, the city was well fortified against Portuguese colonial incursions in Sindh.

During this period, no large scale territorial conquest was intended by the Portuguese ; only a few minor settlements were established in the immediate hinterland of Luanda, some on the last stretch of the Kwanza River.

During the age of discovery Portuguese sailors explored the coasts of Africa and Asia.

During the battle on 25 October 1665 an estimated 20, 000 Kongolese fought against the Portuguese who won the battle thanks to the early death in battle of the Kongolese king António I.

During the prolonged Peninsular War from 1808 – 1814 some 300, 000 French troops were kept permanently occupied by, in addition to several hundred thousand Spanish, Portuguese and British regulars an enormous and sustained guerrilla insurgency — ultimately French deaths would amount to 300, 000 in the Peninsular War alone.

During the Age of Exploration, the Portuguese Empire was the first European power to gain control of Zanzibar and retained it for nearly 200 years.

During the 1960s, various armed independence movements, most prominently led by communist-led parties who cooperated under the CONCP umbrella and pro US groups, became active in these areas, most notably in Angola, Mozambique, and Portuguese Guinea.

During this time he taught himself the Portuguese language to read the poet Camões in the original ; as insufficient Russian-speaking officers were available at the War Office, his knowledge of the Russian language and textual analysis skills were used to translate a Russian parachute training manual-a task he completed after 11pm on top of his normal duties, deducing the meaning of many technical terms from the context ; he was convinced that the Soviet Union must eventually enter the war on the Allied side.

During the 16th century, the Spice trade was dominated by the Portuguese who used Lisbon as a staple port.

During the reign of Ferdinand ( 1367 – 1383 ) and under the regency of Leonora the ruling dynasty ceased to represent the national will ; the Portuguese people therefore made an end of the dynasty and chose its own ruler.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, the Mazrui and Omani Arabs reclaimed much of the Indian Ocean trade, forcing the Portuguese to retreat south.

During the first Atlantic system most of these traders were Portuguese, giving them a near-monopoly during the era, although some Dutch, English, and French traders also participated in the slave trade.

During such periods of rapid state formation or expansion ( Asante and Dahomey being good examples ), slavery formed an important element of political life which the Europeans exploited: As Queen Sara's plea to the Portuguese courts revealed, the system became " sell to the Europeans or be sold to the Europeans ".

During the war with Spain, Newport seized fortunes of Spanish and Portuguese treasure in fierce sea battles in the West Indies as a privateer for Queen Elizabeth I.

During this time, the Portuguese gradually switched from an initial plan of establishing trading posts to extensive colonization of what is now Brazil.