Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] after the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the early decades of the twentieth century , the Kiel school 's theory of plankton growth had been widely accepted , but German oceanography collapsed after the First World War and the impetus passed to British and American scientists . |
| 2 | Having received official blessing from the Donoughmore Committee , tribunals mushroomed , particularly in connection with the social security legislation introduced after the Second World War ( Wraith and Hutchesson , 1973 ) . |
| 3 | Theory 3 — That the West had been too lax in the post-war years and had blind faith in the hope that the unity achieved after the first World War would be re-kindled . |
| 4 | The international economic institutions established after the Second World War ( GATT , the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank ) were based on liberal premises unacceptable to the Soviet bloc , which remained , until recently , economically almost completely isolated . |
| 5 | Firms can easily dissipate their first-mover advantages , as Henry Ford did after the first world war by sacking many of his best senior managers . |