Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [conj] the second [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most rapid decline in employment among elderly people has come about since the Second World War , with the proportion of men over 65 in employment falling from 30 per cent to 10 per cent between 1951 and 1981 , although , because of a rise in married women 's employment , the proportion of the female population over 60 in employment was about the same in 1981 ( 8 per cent ) as in 1951 . |
| 2 | One fourth-year student at C explained to me that several experiments conducted in the lab in the first term of the year could not be written up until the second term , after the theory had been presented in the lecture course , which obviously meant a tremendous backlog of work to catch up on . |
| 3 | Research on the role of stress in psychiatric disorder has grown markedly since the Second World War when the numbers of psychiatric casualties brought an awareness to the general public of the prevalence of mental illness . |
| 4 | The welfare state has grown steadily since the Second World War , in terms of the range of services offered , the number of people covered and the cost of provision . |
| 5 | A new Ministry of Information was set up when the Second World War broke out . |
| 6 | While the number and proportion of women in paid employment has increased significantly since the Second World War , there has been only a very small improvement in women 's wages compared with those of men , and little growth in the range of occupations in which women are able to gain employment . |
| 7 | The first Japanese troops to be deployed overseas since the Second World War arrived in Cambodia on Sept. 20 to join the UN peacekeeping force . |