Example sentences of "[vb past] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soviet spokesmen expected the Third World states to form a strong constituency of support for Brezhnev 's plan and they chose their arguments accordingly . |
| 2 | The first Formula One World Championship race took place at Silverstone on 13 May 1950 and was won by Italian Giuseppe Farina , who became the first World Champion four months later . |
| 3 | Charles Sweeny 's influence and financial backing behind the formation of the Eagle Squadron from American pilots before the US entered the Second World War , was recognised for posterity in 1986 . |
| 4 | Thus , for example , Leon Trotsky described the First World War as ‘ at bottom , a revolt of the forces of production against the political forms of the nation and the State ’ . |
| 5 | During his reunion , Christy visited the 2nd World War Cemetery on Leros where 183 soldiers are buried . |
| 6 | The political awakening that followed the Second World War and the period when French West Africans were able to elect members to the French Parliament saw the establishment of a few party papers , but few Africans could read them and their circulations were extremely low . |
| 7 | Most of the prototypes of both civil and military aircraft which followed the Second World War were fitted with both still and movie cameras for recording specially fitted instrument panels , but their use was confined to test flying and performance proving . |
| 8 | Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War . |
| 9 | That permitted a last Malthusian response to the then unprecedented economic growth and prosperity which followed the Second World War . |
| 10 | Reviewing the four decades that followed the Second World War , Rowthorn and Wells concluded : |
| 11 | Yet these upward pressures became irresistible in the period of the economic prosperity that followed the Second World War . |
| 12 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 13 | During the Second World War , the United States operated a ‘ bare-shelves ’ policy towards grain stocks , fearing a repeat of the price crash which followed the First World War . |
| 14 | Major Bradley of the Bryn Tyrch Hotel in Capel Curig helped the local man to acquire the skills of protective ropework , and Evan spent the Second World War training the Commandos and the Lovat Scouts to climb . |
| 15 | Like Anne Frank , Audrey spent the Second World War in occupied Holland . |
| 16 | However car 4 spent the First World War ferrying bread to the military camp at Squires Gate , for which it was fitted with a pair of side doors . |
| 17 | The alternative vision is the one that I subscribe to , and along with me , most historians in this country and in America , and indeed increasingly erm a young generation of German historians , and this is that things began to go wrong well before nineteen fourteen , and that the Germans in fact deliberately started the First World War as the Treaty of Versailles said they did , that nineteen eighteen was not therefore the beginning of the evil , but merely a hiccup in erm a German attempt to conquer Europe , erm as it were , a play with two acts , the first act being nineteen fourteen to eighteen , and then the second act being nineteen thirty-nine to forty-five , two attempts to dominate the continent of Europe by military force . |
| 18 | Both countries lost the second world war . |
| 19 | Only a handful of shows survived the First World War , during which many of the old varieties of berries became extinct . |
| 20 | In May 1991 the prince visited Prague , a city which survived the Second World War unscathed , during an East European trip with the Princess of Wales . |
| 21 | More than 2,000 delegates attended the 14th World Congress of Accountants held in Washington DC last month . |
| 22 | The British public were cautious and it took the Second World War to inspire a new , and more forward-looking , attitude to the problem of dealing with the economy and unemployment . |
| 23 | The fragmentation and inequities of prewar arrangements were highlighted in 1937 by an influential report from the Department of Political and Economic Planning but it took the Second World War and the Beveridge Report of 1942 to change perceptions sufficiently to legitimise a greatly enhanced role for the state in the provision of health care . |
| 24 | Not only did the First World War produce a major crisis of authority for the old order , but it also resulted in the harnessing by the State , on an unprecedented scale , of the power and resources of the nation towards the war effort . |
| 25 | The Napoleonic Wars brought about a large increase in the government debt and , in the twentieth century , so did the First World War and the Second World War . |
| 26 | Why did the Third World borrow in the first place ? |
| 27 | Perhaps when we fondly remembered the second world war — and engaged in a massive collective oblivion about the causes and costs of that war . |
| 28 | There would be a history in which the Nazis won the Second World War , though the probability is low . |
| 29 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 30 | Erm he , he won the second world war in the Pacific and after the war he became emperor of Japan , well that was n't his title but that 's how he saw it . |