Example sentences of "was [verb] in the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The summer time was introduced in the first world war , do you remember that |
| 2 | She has toured Driving Miss Daisy and is now starring in a Rodney Ackland play at Richmond called The Dark River , playing an elderly schoolteacher whose son was killed in the First World War . |
| 3 | And they 've er they 've both died and one was killed in the First World War . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , most of his work from this period — with the exception of two portraits of Anna May Wong and Gertrude Lawrence — was lost in the Second World War , and is only traceable in the prestigious pages of The Studio 's Photography Year Book of 1935 . |
| 5 | All along the Baltic region brick building began early , owing to the lack of stone materials , but such work has mostly been altered later , in the Middle Ages , or was destroyed in the Second World War . |