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Six example sentences with intervening, each labelled with its topic.
The treaty was signed after the war and revised a decade later, yet the intervening years hardened every grievance.
History
She filed in March and the hearing came in November, and nothing in the intervening months changed her account.
Law
The bond was issued before the crash and matured well after it, so the intervening slump barely touched holders.
Finance
He was drafted in 2015 and became a starter in 2019, and the intervening seasons were spent mostly in the development league.
Basketball
The samples were sealed in 1990 and opened in 2020, and nothing in the intervening thirty years had reached the ice inside.
Science
The band's first album came in 1998 and its second in 2011, with the intervening years lost to touring and lawsuits.
Music
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