Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] second " in BNC.

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1 The shop had been going since before the Second World War .
2 There was also the sensitive question of returning land to ethnic Germans and Hungarians , whose land had been expropriated immediately after the Second World War as punishment for their alleged collaboration with the Nazi occupiers .
3 ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate .
4 The average size of the sentenced prison population has been increasing steadily since the Second World War .
5 It is believed to have been composed early in the second century , very likely by an individual who was indeed named Jude and who , together with his brother James , presided over the Nazarean party at the time .
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