Example sentences of "just [prep] the first [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this article Peter J. Clarke , Manager , International Trade Services , AIB , traces the history surrounding the Letter of Credit from just after the First World War , when it reigned supreme , to the present day . |
| 2 | There were some departures from the norm : just after the First World War several tour operators organized trips to the battlefields of France and Belgium . |
| 3 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 4 | The following example of horse jading happened in Suffolk just after the First World War . |
| 5 | Yeah , aye , just after the First World War . |
| 6 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |
| 7 | Just after the First World War , my father said to my oldest brother and me : ‘ Would you like to see a large grain ship on the river ? ’ |
| 8 | José 's parents died in the influenza epidemic just after the First World War . |
| 9 | This can be seen in the demands for some form of parliamentary control of the making and carrying-out of foreign policy which became more frequent in one or two European states from the end of the nineteenth century and which reached a peak during and just after the First World War . |
| 10 | Yes , well up here in Scotland er where I live erm the maincrop variety Golden Wonder tends to certainly need a par boiling and a par boiling only er when cooking so it needs about what five to six minutes or something like that but erm any more and the tatties go to mash and er that 's why I think a lot of the Golden Wonders er in Scotland are cooked in their skins but erm if I was to go for a variety that er I enjoy would be one called Pentland Ivory , it 's a , a nice flowery spud er and you get quite a plentiful supply of them too so it 's quite a good variety but you know the old Kerr 's Pink used to be called I think Henry 's Seedling , I remember rightly and then it changed its name to Kerr 's Pink because Kerr was a seedsman up in who really introduced it and er that was just after the first world war and that 's a good one , that 's a very good one and it 's got that waxy skin as well you see so it might be quite useful . |
| 11 | He card-indexed half a million radicals just after the First World War , sent agents to intimidate newspapers which dared suggest , in the Thirties , that the banks were not entirely sound , arrested fighters in the Spanish Civil War long after the war was done . |
| 12 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 13 | The first lot of American research institutes , just before the first world war , was more politically innocent . |
| 14 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |
| 15 | Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War . |
| 16 | At Kigoma in Tanganyika a multi-storeyed station was constructed just before the First World War . |
| 17 | Until just before the First World War , a strong decoction containing sarsaparilla , calomel , cinnabar , anise , fennel , senna , and liquorice was warmed up and taken in quart doses daily for ten days . |
| 18 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 19 | The famous ‘ Golly ’ originated just before the first world war from an American design . |
| 20 | Just before the First World War over 90 per cent of households rented privately . |
| 21 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 22 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 23 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 24 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |