Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [prep] the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye , there was er a Billy , a Harry , and er there was another lot come , I c I just ca n't remember their name but after the First World War this Billy used to come round this part and collect cast horses . |
| 2 | Oh he was on the river he he was always connected with the river my father and in the First World War they towed the dredger from here to Ramsgate and er he was , he was in the Army but he was connected to the Inland Water Transport and cos they were dredging out the harbour at Ramsgate . |
| 3 | After a tough debate within the Miners ' Federation in 1911 — the miners were not united on the baths ' efficacy — some of the miners ' leaders collaborated with women activists in the labour movement and during the First World War brought out a pamphlet , published by the Women 's Labour League , promoting pithead baths , including testimony from Robert Smillie and the well-known feminist Kathryn Bruce-Glazier . |
| 4 | Although there were nearly four times as many conscientious objectors as during the First World War , there was no organization remotely like the NCF . |
| 5 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 6 | Continental strategy was uppermost during Marlborough 's campaigns in the war of the Spanish Succession in the eighteenth century and during the First World War , though Britain 's maritime effort was far from insignificant . |