Example sentences of "second [noun] [noun sg] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The average revenue per partner in a big firm is £960,000 , while in a second tier firm it is £390,000 . |
| 2 | The brewery used horse-drawn drays for beer deliveries in and around the East End , and during the Second World War it was hit hard when a German land mine damaged the brewery stables , killing and injuring many of the horses . |
| 3 | In the Second World War it was Chiang Kai-shek 's lifeline . |
| 4 | From 1935 to the Second World War it was their leaders who assumed the office of Prime Minister . |
| 5 | After the Second World War it broadened to include all boys ' schools . |
| 6 | Since the Second World War it has all been downhill . |
| 7 | In the Second World War it was protected by the government which , in order to preserve part of the national heritage , transferred a group of White Parks to the famous King Ranch in Texas , USA . |
| 8 | It has been completely eradicated from Greece since 1973 , where before the Second World War it caused an estimated one to two million cases annually . |
| 9 | It was then a University magazine but after the Second World War it became , as Nonesuch News , the student newspaper . |
| 10 | Before the Second World War it was still decreed by the Women 's Cricket Association that women cricketers should wear white stockings — a rule which it has to be said was not always adhered to by the players . |
| 11 | Before the Second World War it boasted a church , two chapels , a school , three shops , a post office , two joiners , two tailors , a ladies dressmaker ( specialising in high quality garments ! ) , a cobbler , a slaughter-house and butcher , a fish and chip shop and two public houses . |
| 12 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 13 | Up to the Second World War it was normal for governments to run a balanced budget . |
| 14 | If your house was built before the Second World War it may still have lead piping . |
| 15 | After the second world war it had to adjust to the loss of an empire . |
| 16 | In the Second World War it housed around 800 prisoners . |