Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose in the First World War , I do n't remember an awful lot about it , we wer always seemed to have enough to eat but er I , I think the Second World War whatever there was it was fairly distributed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Such aspects of Fascist economics were almost an anticipation of Labour government policy in the crises which followed the Second World War . |
| 4 | That permitted a last Malthusian response to the then unprecedented economic growth and prosperity which followed the Second World War . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , his incorrigible nature meant he was unrepentant , and Loki ultimately formed an army to fight THOR and Odin in the Ragnarok , the battle which destroyed the First World . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Do you remember the Second World War at the docks . |
| 10 | Erm do you remember the second world war ? |
| 11 | The Euro Horse Trophy was on time from the start and Rozier just held off Austrian Hugo Simon , who won the first World Cup final in this arena in 1979 , on Amaretto . |
| 12 | NOW THAT the Second World of formerly communist countries is falling over itself to join the First World , the name ‘ Third World ’ suits the rest of the planet less well than ever . |
| 13 | But already the Indians and the Pakistanis , who staged the fourth World Cup in 1987 , are looking hot favourites to win the two-horse race . |
| 14 | But already the Indians and the Pakistanis , who staged the fourth World Cup in 1987 , are hot favourites to win the two-horse race . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It means the Third World is exporting more commodities in terms of quantity , but the money it earns from them is reduced and can buy fewer and fewer imported goods . |