Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances of these Communist tactics leading to the Third World War by 1953 were deemed too high for any complacency in Western capitals . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , those premises were destroyed by enemy bombing in the second world war , and the site is now part of the Shelter-homes development . |
| 3 | After the collapse of the communist regime in late 1989 , the new East German government announced that it would allow US , Israeli and other researchers access to state archives dealing with the Second World War and in particular with the extermination of Jews and other war crimes . |
| 4 | Welcome back : In a few minutes we 'll be turning back the clock with the men who kept Britain 's coalmines working during the Second World War . |
| 5 | Whereas the railways in the past had been an integral part of the cityscape , running down main streets , leaving in their wake a succession of railroad crossings on the classic American street grid plan , by the turn of the century they were already disappearing behind fences , into cuttings , or underground , a process which was to be speeded up in the years leading to the First World War . |
| 6 | On the first night we went on aguided tour of the Stonehenge works and saw various locos dating from the first world war and plenty of ex-sand wagons which were used in the pits of the area . |
| 7 | This was the plane which kept the transatlantic service going during the Second World War . |
| 8 | Development planning in the third world is a team exercise . |
| 9 | Yesterday Lis , North Wales area secretary for Christian Aid , was giving her backing to a major campaign to promote better understanding of the problems faced by people living in the Third World . |
| 10 | The report will be used as the basis for policy making at the second World Climate Conference in Geneva in November . |
| 11 | The unification of Germany in 1990 left the Korean peninsula as the sole surviving example of formal partition originating from the Second World War . |
| 12 | In 1972 the US spent three times more on family planning in the Third World than it did on health : ‘ It 's a right-wing plot ’ , some declared . |