Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequently , polythene played an important part in radar during the Second World War . |
| 2 | THE DEATH of Harry Boot on 8 February at the age of 65 removes a distinguished figure from those who contributed in an outstanding way to the successful application of British science to radar during the Second World War . |
| 3 | Many farmers still retained some milk for cheesemaking but regulations on the production and use of milk during the Second World War almost brought farmhouse production to a halt and it has never been resumed on an appreciable scale . |
| 4 | Unknown to many of his colleagues , Karl had a remarkable experience during the second world war as a member of the Polish Resistance in his native France . |
| 5 | These dates have now become a bone of contention in Hong Kong as rugby administrators in the British territory have belatedly realised — even though they are not admitting it — that the Japanese have outsmarted them and gained a precious advantage for the next World Cup . |
| 6 | An Irish Catholic , raised in New York , he had been a gung-ho member of the OSS during the second world war . |
| 7 | It is thought that the Italian connection relates to the old farm being used to hold Italian prisoners of war captive during the Second World War . |
| 8 | Its use in Germany during the Second World War provided the most dramatic illustration of the power of the symbol . |
| 9 | Pacelli 's relationship with Germany during the Second World War , and his apparent failure to act sufficiently vigorously in defence of the Jews , remains the great enigma of his pontificate . |
| 10 | This one is pitched in Rosamund Pilcher territory , a many-layered family saga set in London , Kent and Germany during the Second World War . |
| 11 | He 'd been a prisoner-of-war in Germany during the First World War and as a result of his wartime experiences suffered constantly from a weak chest . |
| 12 | Robert Vidalin , a voice of resistance during the second world war , in Paris aged 86 . |
| 13 | Born in 1925 of a Ukrainian immigrant father , Bérégovoy was largely self-taught and fought in the resistance during the Second World War . |
| 14 | In spite of these absences and the decline of country house building during the First World War , the Twenties saw a steady stream of commissioned work from the Lutyens drawing board . |
| 15 | Several European governments and the European Commission provide funds to pay part of the costs of public information and education programmes about the Third World . |
| 16 | Weiss reportedly cast doubts in comments to the daily Neue A-Z on Oct. 10 on the existence during the Second World War of gas chambers for the extermination of Jews . |
| 17 | A Marine during the Second World War , Jones was cited at Iwo Jima . |
| 18 | The Chamber of the House of Commons was damaged by bombs during the Second World War and when deciding whether it should be rebuilt as it was originally , or along the lines of the Houses of Parliament in Ottawa and elsewhere in the Commonwealth ( ’ one representative : one desk ’ ) , Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee , with other senior politicians , plumped for the old ways — and the old ways were those of adversarial politics . |
| 19 | Between 1908 and 1948 several groups negotiated the needs of older people , among them the National Conference on Old Age Pensions ( NCOAP ) , the National Spinsters ' Pensions Association ( which played an important role in the reduction of women 's pension age from 65 to 60 ) , the National Federation of Old Age Pensions Associations ( NFOAPA ) , and the National Old People 's Welfare Committee , established by voluntary groups during the Second World War . |
| 20 | The spectacular musical set in London 's East End during the second world war . |
| 21 | The Nazi Party of Germany used its powerful pattern to full advantage during the Second World War . |
| 22 | I have a very clear recollection of Nigel de Grey , sometime Lieutenant-Commander in the Naval Intelligence Division during the First World War , giving us a lecture on security which was psychologically scarifying , as indeed it was meant to be . |
| 23 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 24 | The German state prosecutor 's office announced on April 8 that tests conducted on the bones of a man who died in Brazil in 1979 confirmed that the body ( discovered in 1985 — see p. 33759 ) was that of Josef Mengele , the so-called " Angel of Death " held responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War . |
| 25 | Fetherstone was used as a POW camp during the last World War , and the ruins of the camp 's huts still litter parklands by the river . |
| 26 | The film , about the effect of war on young men at a United States Air Force base in Cambridgeshire during the Second World War , demanded that Crawford learn to speak with an American accent — in twenty-four hours . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | TOM joined the family business as the fourth generation and served in the RAF during the second world war . |
| 29 | Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War . |
| 30 | Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports . |