Example sentences of "until [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.

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1 It linked Louth with the Humber estuary , and was used for commercial traffic until the First World War .
2 The ensuing entente between the government and political India lasted until the First World War .
3 Alexander extended Russia 's borders further west than ever and they remained essentially unchanged until the First World War .
4 The membership remained largely moribund until the First World War , although the title of the union had been somewhat pretentiously changed to the National Agricultural Labourers ' and Rural Workers ' Union ( N A L R W U ) in 1912 .
5 Business generally increased until the First World War when tonnages dropped away .
6 Among the poor who had no property , desertion was the informal answer to marital unhappiness and was practised on an unknown scale until the Second World War : certainly , eighteenth and nineteenth century poor law officials often expressed concern at the number of deserted wives drawing relief .
7 He had no interest in the architecture of what was then merely a rather dull manor house , but kept on improving the estate , which was to give pleasure to the Welch family until the Second World War .
8 As already indicated , the Conservative party was the dominant member of all three National governments which operated from August 1931 until the Second World War .
9 The mill remained in commercial use until the Second World War .
10 Until the second world war , the Berlin exchange was the most important on the Continent ; national division reduced it to the status of a small regional market .
11 In the 1880s there had begun to run on them the transcontinental luxury expresses which were to dominate long-distance land travel until the second world war .
12 The ‘ Golden Age ’ of English agriculture was over ; after the 1860s it entered a period of decline from which it was not to recover until the Second World War .
13 In other words , quite apart from the franchise changes that did the party no net harm , the changes of 1918–21 transformed the Unionists from the natural minority that they had been in 1914 to a natural majority party until the Second World War .
14 Women had to wait until the Second World War before invading station employment once more .
15 Very little was pre-packaged , and packed groceries formed only a small part of trade until the Second World War .
16 One early example of a pre-packaged product was JS own-brand bloater fish paste which was made to a special recipe in the firm 's Blackfriars factory from 1891 until the Second World War .
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