Example sentences of "a [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dalbeattie in Dumfries and Galloway is the site of a Second World War factory , the ugly remains of this building needing to be removed by the Scottish Development Agency . |
| 2 | Mrs Thatcher suggested that ‘ had America stayed in Europe after the first world war and we had a Nato then , I do not believe we would have had a second world war . |
| 3 | This would raise the weekly pension of a widow of a second world war private from £57 to more than £100 . |
| 4 | So far , three production companies claim to have bought the rights to subjects ranging from the ‘ Third Man ’ scandal of Kim Philby to the assassination of Leon Trotsky , the Cuban Missile Crisis and the attempted assassination of Winston Churchill during a Second World War summit in Teheran . |
| 5 | The general impression is rather eerie , but it is more reminiscent of a Second World War bombed city than of one abandoned nearly 2,000 years ago . |
| 6 | A former British and European light-welterweight champion , Barrett has now asked the British Boxing Board of Control to name him as challenger to Gary Jacobs for the British welterweight championship and Ludovic Proto for the European title before he considers a second world title . |
| 7 | In July Beverley Nicolls ' Cry Havoc was published , an incoherent and emotional anti-war tract which predicted that a second world war would break out within a year . |
| 8 | Mosley revolted over the wrong crisis , for he failed to see that considerable social and economic reform would result from a Second World War , a conflagration which he bitterly opposed and which led to his internment in 1940 . |
| 9 | They decided the object was the tip of a Second World War Two shell with no explosive capability . |
| 10 | Below the coum near the County Stone are the strewn remains of a Second World War plane that crashed killing all the poor lads that were in her . |
| 11 | This is now merely a set of narrow winding lanes , cut at its north end by a second world war air field . |
| 12 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 13 | Tacitly interpolating a second world as a buffer between the first and third , served to emphasize the non-relationship between the rich and the poor . |
| 14 | A second world climate conference was to be held in November 1990 in Geneva . |
| 15 | An anti-Nazi lawyer , Serge Klarsfeld , discovered in mid-November that a Second World War filedrawn up by French police in October 1940 on the instructions of the Gestapo and containing information on all Jewish people in Paris was still in existence at the Ministry of War Veterans , where it was apparently used to check pension claims . |
| 16 | It 's just that sometimes you sound like someone straight out of a Second World War movie and it gets on my lower-middle-class nerves . ’ |
| 17 | Part of a town centre was sealed off and buildings evacuated after a second World War Mortar Bomb was discovered at a charity shop . |
| 18 | THE Pulitzer-prize winning author John Hersey , a Second World War correspondent who captured the horrors of the first atomic bomb attack in his book Hiroshima , died yesterday in Florida . |
| 19 | The remnants were not from a Second World War Spitfire , as some believed , but from a Hawker Hunter jet which crashed on a routine flight 33 years ago . |
| 20 | Employment was down to 150 , from a pre-Second World War high of 3,000 , and two rival quarries in neighbouring valleys had succumbed to the depression . |
| 21 | Frenchman Alain Prost has come out of retirement in a bid to steer it to a fourth world title next season . |
| 22 | From the side the construction resembles a first world war tank . |
| 23 | ‘ Much of the poetry studied was contemporary or near-contemporary , although many classes had encountered at least one poem by a first world war poet . ’ |
| 24 | A modern village hall was built in 1976 replacing a First World War army hut , originally purchased and maintained over the years by the Women 's Institute . |
| 25 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 26 | Frankie had nothing much more to offer till they signed to Zang Tumb Tuum ( ZTT ) the label ( named after a First World War futurist magazine ) formed by New Musical Express ( NME ) theorist , Paul Morley , and Dollar/ABC/Malcolm McLaren producer , Trevor Horn . |
| 27 | The club cashbox containing £3 2s 8d , two Co-op milk tokens and a First World War medal went missing . |
| 28 | The ground felt as I imagined a first world war battlefield might feel — all pits and trenches — but dry . |
| 29 | A couple of years later , Rowan Atkinson , as Captain Blackadder , in a First World War trench , encounters a pretty girl dressed as a male soldier . |
| 30 | The interesting twist to this issue is that it was Japan , clearly now a First World country , and in the opinion of many now the most dynamic economic power , that was often identified in the United States and in Europe , as the worst offender , with the four East Asian NICs not far behind . |