intervening
adjective/ˌɪntəˈviːnɪŋ/
/ˌɪntərˈviːnɪŋ/
[only before noun]- coming or existing between two events, dates, objects, etc.
- Little had changed in the intervening years.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryIntervening is used with these nouns:- decade
- month
- period
- …
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