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intervening

[ US /ˌɪntɝˈvinɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ˌɪntəvˈiːnɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. occurring or falling between events or points in time
    so much had happened during the intervening years

How To Use intervening In A Sentence

  • The record was, I think, called Peace, a heart-warming exhortation for world leaders to avoid war – although many of them, unbelievably, have completely ignored the doughty cloggers' message in the intervening years. Which footballers have produced their own food and drink?
  • It was a metaphor that predicted the nature of the many problems that have beset excessively large inner urban secondary schools in the intervening years. Times, Sunday Times
  • The broadcaster attacked customs officials and police who seemingly stood on the quayside watching without intervening to help. Times, Sunday Times
  • Much has changed in those intervening four months. Times, Sunday Times
  • M'wali's voice was sharp and clear across the intervening vacuum. Bloodhype
  • Inevitably many of the works of art and furniture originally in the house had been dispersed over the intervening two hundred years.
  • Much has changed in those intervening four months. Times, Sunday Times
  • In Europe right now, they have two--four devices--actually, two were approved this week--for intervening on the aortic valve, minimally invasively, basically going through an artery in the leg and threading the replacement valve up through a catheter, into the heart. Class War Stories
  • With such discourse, and the intervening topics of business, the time passed until dinner, Macwheeble meanwhile promising to devise some mode of introducing Edward at the Duchran, where Rose at present resided, without risk of danger or suspicion; which seemed no very easy task, since the laird was a very zealous friend to government. Waverley
  • Down the hall, separated by a cordon sanitaire of three intervening rooms, yet another lawyer was ploughing through Butler's work, also using pen and paper.
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