Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] second world " in BNC.
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| 1 | So you know , these traditions die hard but I m but things had to change and they changed really after the Second World War . |
| 2 | A family which was torn apart during the Second World War has had an emotional reunion . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 5 | The shop had been going since before the Second World War . |
| 6 | The second " have " ( = " has " ) seems odd because the realisation happened only during the Second World War and is now clearly finished . |
| 7 | It was used extensively during the Second World War , and is still used in parts of the Third World to help eradicate malaria and typhus . |
| 8 | There was also the sensitive question of returning land to ethnic Germans and Hungarians , whose land had been expropriated immediately after the Second World War as punishment for their alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupiers . |
| 9 | That sentiment , expressed early in the second world war by a journalist called Henry McLemore , epitomised the attitude of many Americans when war broke out in 1941 . |
| 10 | The idea , conceived by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and endorsed last month in talks between the German leader and US president Bill Clinton , is an attempt to revive the strong transatlantic ties that existed immediately after the Second World War but which have steadily declined as that post-war generation ages . |
| 11 | The numbers of places in day nurseries ( the only state day-care provision ) declined steadily after the Second World War , and has only recently increased by a tiny amount . |
| 12 | Thankfully all men and women returned safely from the Second World War , so a sum of money was given to the hall and a brass plaque erected declaring it to be a memorial village hall . |
| 13 | These three countries agreed to cooperate soon after the Second World War . |
| 14 | the number and proportion of women in paid employment in the United Kingdom has increased substantially since the Second World War , and |
| 15 | Although Eisenhower and Churchill had worked together in the Second World War as military commander and prime minister , Churchill had now to remember that Eisenhower was president of the world 's greatest power . |
| 16 | In the early 19th century , however , new legislation inadvertently deprived the press of its fiscal advantages , and its publishing petered out , to be revived only after the Second World War . |
| 17 | Today 's farewell party brought together staff who 'd worked there during the Second World War . |
| 18 | The average size of the sentenced prison population has been increasing steadily since the Second World War . |
| 19 | It is a very rare disease today and the incidence has decreased markedly since the Second World War . |
| 20 | Mass movement of women into the work-force dates only from the Second World War — especially from 1960 — and the improvement of women 's wage rates relative to men 's happened only since 1970 . |
| 21 | State intervention in rural manufacturing really dates only from the Second World War , after the report of the Scott Committee in 1942 assessed the advantages and disadvantages that would result from rural industrialization . |
| 22 | John Betjeman , the former Poet Laureate , wrote just before the Second World War ( 'Slough' in Skelton , 1964 , p. 74 ) : |
| 23 | It is on a much smaller scale than those held just after the Second World War when animals and livestock were included and a show ring was erected for the horse and pony events . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | His father , Drew , started Langholm Dyeing Works just after the Second World War . |
| 26 | But they were disappearing even before the Second World War . |
| 27 | The third moment of situational change begins sometime after the Second World War — most strikingly with the advent of rock 'n' roll — and can be termed the moment of ‘ pop culture ’ . |