Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] before the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 2 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 3 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 4 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 5 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 6 | The famous ‘ Golly ’ originated just before the first world war from an American design . |
| 7 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 8 | At Kigoma in Tanganyika a multi-storeyed station was constructed just before the First World War . |
| 9 | John Betjeman , the former Poet Laureate , wrote just before the Second World War ( 'Slough' in Skelton , 1964 , p. 74 ) : |
| 10 | He had been a deputy in parliament for the Swiss Party of Labour from 1944 , when it was founded , to 1986 , having represented the Communist Party from 1936 until it was banned shortly before the Second World War . |
| 11 | But they were disappearing even before the Second World War . |