Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [adv] before the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 2 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 3 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 4 | In the period immediately before the First War , the growing political militancy of the Women 's Social and Political Union ( WSPU ) , along with the publication of feminist books and pamphlets on sexuality , radicalized the older , more traditional women 's organizations . |
| 5 | The period immediately before the First World War saw rapid economic and social change in Ireland . |
| 6 | ( a ) the date on which the scheme is to come into effect , being a date not later than the day immediately before the first transfer date ; and |
| 7 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |
| 8 | Later readers were often puzzled by the references to ‘ stations ’ at a time long before the first arrival of the railway in Cumbria . |