Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | This continued throughout the Second World War and until 1949 , when the mill finally came into the hands of a new owner , a Mr Carr . |
| 2 | Th you know it was just the sort of it , it all changed after the First World War and completely changed after the Second World War . |
| 3 | I expect they all went in the Second World War . |
| 4 | Wynne-Jones I first met before the Second World War in the subterranean Balliol-Trinity physical laboratory at Oxford , where all the chemical kinetics were said to be catalysed by cigarette smoke . |
| 5 | The Jeep Wranglers receiving so much stick last week were the direct descendants of the vehicle which first surfaced in the Second World War when Ford mass produced the Jeep ( GP from General Purpose ) runabouts to take the invading allies to Berlin just as fast as the film crews could follow the generals . |
| 6 | The company first emerged in the Second World War , supplying electrical components for the RAF , and much of its advanced scientific work for the Ministry of Defence in ‘ Electronic Systems ’ remained ( like that of very many Defence suppliers ) in the South , co-ordinated from national headquarters in Ilford ( Greater London ) . |