Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 2 | Employers constantly gnawed at the high level of wages which had been built up during the First World War . |
| 3 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 4 | Since the commission was set up in the First World War they in nineteen ninety five they said it would break even for the first time and agreed the last and thirties and forty come to maturity in which incomes are expected to double by twenty , twenty two . |
| 5 | Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again . |
| 6 | At Kigoma in Tanganyika a multi-storeyed station was constructed just before the First World War . |