Example sentences of "much [prep] the third " in BNC.
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| 1 | Banking in particular , seems particularly susceptible to failures in foreign markets caused by reactive pressures — much of the Third World debt problems can be traced to banks looking for easy foreign expansion routes when faced by lack of growth in domestic markets . |
| 2 | There is still time for much of the Third World to be held back from taking the same course . |
| 3 | Something on that scale , or beyond , will be needed if the lethal cocktail of growing populations and diminishing harvests is not to create further tragedy in much of the third world . |
| 4 | But although they had vanished by the late 1950s , together with beggars from most European stations , the importunate begging hand thrust through the window of the railway carriage remains common throughout much of the Third World . |
| 5 | Much of the third world was colonised then . |
| 6 | A study presented to the United Nations suggests that grain yields will fall by 10 to 15 per cent in much of the third world as a result of global warming . |