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prépositions > during / for (pendant, durant, au cours de)
during + durée non quantifiée (sauf exceptions) during + GN
during a combat operation, Hurricane Katrina, the war, the Civil War, World War II, the second world war President Bush’s first term, an immigration protest rally, the first half of the East Regional final, the May 9 raid near Samarra, Iraq, his news conference, a recent interview with The New York Times, the second round of the CA Championship, a search for suspects, their arraignment, the trial, the weekend, these years,
during + GN
avec déterminant + quantificateur during a three-day pre-auction showing during a 63-minute press conference during a nearly three-hour visit to the medical center
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for + durée quantifiée for + quantificateur (ø, a, one, two, three, five, several, many, a few, etc.) + GN for ø years for 70 years for + GN quantitatif for decades
for (pendant, durant) + durée quantifiée + GV au prétérit / présent
In Turnabout, Infant Deaths Climb in South
April 22, 2007
HOLLANDALE, Miss. — For decades
[ durant plusieurs décennies ], In Turnabout, Infant Deaths Climb in South, NYT, 22.4.2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/health/22infant.html?hp
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for (depuis) + durée quantifiée + GV au present perfect
I haven't seen him for Ø years
for (pendant, durant) est suivi d'un quantificateur (for Ø / four / many months).
La quantification peut être indéterminée et sous-entendue (quantificateur Ø), ou imprécise :
For a time [ glose : pendant un certain temps, un temps ], the police gave [ prétérit ] the data to the City Council with some regularity.
But the frequency of the reports slowed, and in
February 2006, the department released data for the third quarter of 2003. “The City Council has failed to ensure that the Police Department is producing the reports, as required by the statute” said Christopher Dunn of the New York Civil Liberties Union. “As a result, it has not been doing any monitoring of stop-and-frisk activity, which was the very point of the statute.”
Number of People Stopped by Police Soars in New York, NYT,
3.2.2007,
Voir aussi > quantification indéterminée > ø + N
during + quantificateur est considéré comme agrammatical (*during four months).
Cela étant, on rencontre parfois cette séquence :
During 12 days at the station, the shuttle astronauts performed five spacewalks, a number previously seen only during Hubble Space Telescope servicing missions. Three of the excursions were needed to assemble Dextre and the others to deploy experiments, examine a malfunctioning rotary joint on a truss holding solar power panels, and stow a long shuttle-inspection boom that the Discovery will retrieve and use on the next shuttle mission. Space Shuttle Completes 16-Day Mission, and Lands, NYT, 26.3.2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/science/space/26cnd-shuttle.html
Familiar Disputes Face US - Russia
June 14,
2007
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S.-Russian dispute over a missile shield in Eastern Europe is too complicated to be resolved during two days of talks next month between President Bush and President Vladimir Putin, a Kremlin spokesman said Thursday. Familiar Disputes Face US - Russia, NYT, 14.6.2007, http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-US-Russia.html
During ten years in Downing Street, Tony Blair won three general elections, waged five wars and reinvented the way Britain is governed. http://politics.guardian.co.uk/flash/page/0,,2075995,00.html , G, 10.5.2007.
"These are objects that were growing to
planethood, but something stopped that process of growth mid-gestation," Stern
said. "It left us these fossil relics."
scientists hope to collect information about Pluto's surface and its ethereal
atmosphere, which is shedding into interstellar space like the tail of a comet. New Horizons is expected to position itself to encounter at least one other, still-to-be-determined Pluto-like world. NASA counts down to Pluto probe launch, R, Mon Jan 16, 2006 6:55 PM ET, http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2006-01-16T235450Z_01_N16386760_RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-PLUTO.xml
During five decades, Brakhage made nearly 380 films, most of them shot in 8mm or 16mm, and ranging in length from nine seconds to four hours. Stan Brakhage obituary, GE, p. 12, 15.3.2003.
prépositions > during / for (pendant, durant) > autres énoncés
For decades, wealthy shoppers were forced to avert their eyes from the architectural carbuncle of Bowater House as they swept in and out of Harvey Nichols. As the London property market burnt white hot, developers realised that the stunning views afforded from this unloved 1950s office block, marooned amid some of the world's most desirable real estate, were wasted on the ordinary mortals who laboured within. Property: Demand 'off the scale' for £84m Hyde Park penthouse, I, 8.2.2007, http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2248787.ece
The Met Office issued an early warning of severe weather. Britain faces heaviest snow in years, G, 6.2.2007, http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/Story/0,,2007072,00.html
During a check of the parking lot, an
officer followed Mrs. Nowak and
watched her throw away a bag containing the wig
and a BB gun. They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber
tubing, rubber gloves, $600 in cash, love letters — all in bags and in her car,
the police said. Astronaut Charged with Attempted Kidnapping, NYT, 6.2.2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/us/06cnd-astronaut.html
The cold also brought calls for help from car owners faced
with dead batteries and frozen locks. Nancy Cain, spokeswoman for AAA Michigan, said Monday. ''This morning we've already had 300 calls for help.'' Below - Zero Temps Close Schools, NYT, 5.2.2007, http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Arctic-Blast.html
For 70 years, until his death two years ago, and long after the Internet became commonplace, Mr Powell systematically and compulsively made contact with other ham radio operators in at least 151 countries. The Lure of Amateur Radio In a World Before the Web, NYT/Le Monde, 11/12.5.2003.
The public dressing down for Mr Blair came during a 63-minute press conference staged by the two men at Mr Putin's private residence outside Moscow. We are not with you and we don't believe you, GE/GE2, p. 1, 30.4.2003.
During the early 1970s, T Rex was one of Britain's pop music sensations, inspiring "T Rexstacy" in teenage audiences. Mickey Finn, GE, p. 12, 18.1.2003.
During the 80s, growing international horror at the injustices of apartheid prompted a proliferation of boycott campaigns. Power to the people, GE Review, p.4, 20.12.2002.
Out of harm's way: A team of US medics ducks below the blades of a Blackhawk rescue helicopter during a training exercise yesterday in the northern Kuwaiti desert Photo caption, Thousands join US cyber-rehearsal for war, T, p. 4, 09.12.2002.
1,440,500 Indians fought for Britain during the first world war An empire at war, Soldiers of the empire, GE2, p. 7, 6.11.2002.
Tony Kaye earned a reputation for eccentric behaviour during his time as a commercials director in Britain. Losing it, GE2, p. II, 25.10.2002.
« He just hopes he won’t be interrupted during the speech he plans to deliver in front of the judges. » Milosevic stands trial before the world, GW, p. 1, 14/20.2.2002.
But during the past few weeks there has been growing evidence of… Afghans still dying as strikes go on. But no one is counting, GW, p. 2, 14/20.2.2002.
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