Example sentences of "[verb] up [prep] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 2 | Through the period leading up to the Second World War rural England too was subjected , according to C.E.M . |
| 3 | Production increased tenfold in the period leading up to the second world war . |
| 4 | Anyone trying seriously to find out what was in the public mind at the time of the Boer War and the years leading up to the First World War will find information here of great value . |
| 5 | For example , Ellen Ross 's ( 1983 ) discussion of the lifestyle of the working poor in the East End of London , in the period leading up to the First World War , contains evidence about financial relationships between young working adults and their parents , based partly on the surveys of Charles Booth ( 1892b ) . |
| 6 | In the years leading up to the First World War the Hooligan embarked on a remarkable career , appearing in name if not in person before numerous governmental and semi-official bodies of enquiry . |
| 7 | These themes constantly recur up to the First World War . |
| 8 | The old-style conglomerates based around a bank which emerged from the pre-war zaibatsu differ markedly from newer groups that have sprung up since the second world war . |
| 9 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 10 | The Welfare State was set up after the Second World War as a means of providing universal ‘ freedom from want ’ , according to Sir William Beveridge , and ‘ care from cradle to grave ’ for the whole population according to Sir Winston Churchill . |
| 11 | Axelrod draws a moving illustration of the importance of the shadow of the future from a remarkable phenomenon that grew up during the First World War , the so-called live-and-let-live system . |
| 12 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |
| 13 | If developed countries do not want their rubbish to end up in the third world , they must help developing countries to build better treatment facilities and enforce higher standards . |
| 14 | But although Biarritz still has a statue of Queen Victoria , that of Edward VII was blown up during the Second World War , on political rather than aesthetic or moral grounds it is said . |
| 15 | By the 1850s , it was solely a corn mill , working up to the First World War . |