Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [prep] the second world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 2 | TOM joined the family business as the fourth generation and served in the RAF during the second world war . |
| 3 | AS the ideological gulf between Moscow and Bucharest yawns ever wider , the Romanian leader , President Nicolae Ceausescu , has raised the potentially explosive issue of former Romanian territories annexed by the Kremlin during the second world war . |
| 4 | Leaving Mongolia aside , the leaders of each country are the linear descendants of ‘ Muscovite ’ Communists , sheltered in the USSR during the Second World War and brought to power in the van of the Red Army : in times of friction , it takes little to remind Eastern Europe 's leaders not only how their bread is buttered , but how they got into the larder in the first place . |
| 5 | The Church of St Helen , in Bishopsgate , which has been wrecked , survived both the Great Fire and the efforts of the Luftwaffe during the Second World War . |
| 6 | By 1979 energy consumption was almost back to the 1973 level but this trend was abruptly curtailed by the second oil shock which contributed to the worst recession in the UK since the Second World War . |
| 7 | He served with the Fiji Military Forces in the Pacific during the Second World War , and held various ministerial posts before independence in 1970 . |
| 8 | He drew strong criticism from Jews and many gentile Poles , by comparing abortion with the Holocaust of the Second World War , when 600,000 Polish citizens were murdered . |
| 9 | Briefly with the SAS in the Second World War , he distinguished himself by being wholly ignorant of whether a wheel nut was to be undone clockwise or not . |
| 10 | Although British industry more than matched American in its degree of concentration it was far slower to adopt modern methods of business organisation , especially the multi-divisional company form which had been well established in the USA before the Second World War . |