Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] world 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | The production of textiles was still going up ; in 1913 two-thirds of the whole world 's imports of cotton goods still came from Great Britain . |
| 2 | About two thirds of the Third World 's $1,000 billion debt was lent by around 550 of the world 's private banks from North America , Japan and Europe between the late 1960s and early 1980s . |
| 3 | The continued squeeze on defence procurement , combined with a demand for ever-more complex weaponry , has encouraged NATO to think the once-unthinkable : a code of practice for defence companies that should wring better value for money out of what used to be one of the capitalist world 's most protected and pampered industries . |
| 4 | The camel is without doubt one of the natural world 's most remarkable forms of transport . |
| 5 | The De Brazza is one of the Old World 's largest monkeys , and the most richly coloured of the African forest monkeys known as guenons . |