Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.

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1 This means that garment workers in the Third World who benefited from the search for cheap labour by the TNCs in the past , can no longer assume that their jobs will always be safe from relocation back to the First World ( Elson , in Elson and Pearson , 1989 ) .
2 The case method had become adopted as the dominant method of legal study in the elite American law schools in the period up to the First World War .
3 The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 .
4 The period immediately before the First World War saw rapid economic and social change in Ireland .
5 Constructed of stone and with a tiled roof , it went out of use shortly after the First World War .
6 Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War .
7 José 's parents died in the influenza epidemic just after the First World War .
8 The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young .
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