Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] in the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of Illich 's ideas were developed in the Third World as a political response to the economic impossibility of universal ‘ Western education ’ . |
| 2 | Many of the films , priced at £12 to £90 , were made in the Third World . |
| 3 | A parliamentary campaign has been launched to officially pardon hundreds of British soldiers who were executed in the First World War for desertion and cowardice . |
| 4 | A bill to grant posthumous pardons to all three hundred and seven British soldiers who were executed in the first world war , has gained a formal first reading in the house of commons . |
| 5 | Fire fighters from across the country have been paying tribute to airmen who were killed in the second world war . |
| 6 | The summer time was introduced in the first world war , do you remember that |
| 7 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |
| 8 | And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , most of his work from this period — with the exception of two portraits of Anna May Wong and Gertrude Lawrence — was lost in the Second World War , and is only traceable in the prestigious pages of The Studio 's Photography Year Book of 1935 . |
| 10 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |