Example sentences of "[noun] after the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Czechoslovak government faced a demand from Sudeten Germans for material compensation for their expulsion from Czechoslovakia after the Second World War . |
| 4 | It culminated in the clean-up of the industry inaugurated by nationalisation after the Second World War . |
| 5 | Throughout the Balkans for two generations after the Second World War , the initials ‘ PC ’ had two interchangeable meanings : ‘ Communist Party ’ and ‘ Friends and Connections ’ ( Prietini si Connexiunei ) . |
| 6 | And of course after the Second World War and the comparative austerity of the 1940s , having fun seemed natural enough , and justifying having fun is what hedonistic philosophy is for . |
| 7 | A FUND standing at about £200,000 which was raised to give aid and comfort to homecoming British prisoners after the Second World War is alleged to be growing in direct proportion to the number of old soldiers dying without ever seeing a penny of it . |
| 8 | In East Berlin in October , in his speech marking the German Democratic Republic 's 40th anniversary , Mr Gorbachev reminded the world that the Soviet Union had advocated the preservation of German unity after the second world war . |
| 9 | Theirs is a distinctive type of cut-price retailing that emerged in Germany after the second world war and is subtly different from its American cousin . |
| 10 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 11 | These are aids of a social character , those given to relieve the effects of natural disasters and those designed to compensate for economic disadvantages caused by the division of Germany after the Second World War . |
| 12 | Mr Lozoraitis had raised eyebrows in Moscow by a suggestion that Lithuania might one day regain Kaliningrad , a region ceded to Russia by defeated Germany after the Second World War . |
| 13 | The world record for economic inflation was probably Germany after the First World War , where the price of a loaf of bread went from under a mark to millions of marks in a few months . |
| 14 | Large new stations designed to do just that were built in these three cities after the Second World War . |
| 15 | The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq . |
| 16 | Incidentally , vitamins were applied percutaneously to treat severely vitamin-deficient ex-prisoners too ill to take them by mouth after the Second World War . |
| 17 | Formerly with Sunderland , John joined the Palace from Belfast Distillery after the 1st World War and immediately cracked 18 Southern League goals in his 37 appearances in 1919–20 , proving the ideal partner for veteran striker Ted Smith . |
| 18 | It rose after 1940 , and with particular speed after the Second World War . |
| 19 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 20 | A number of choices were made on the introduction of legal aid after the Second World War , which have affected its development . |
| 21 | Whether developments in Europe since the Second World War have wrought the sort of constitutional change brought about by the emergence of the Dominions after the First World War , raises exactly this question and we turn to it in the next chapter . |
| 22 | The influx of recruits after the First World War made conditions at George Square inadequate and some of the staff returned to offices in the Sheriff Court Buildings , the site of which is now occupied by the Scottish National Library . |
| 23 | Spengler 's concept of the alleged unity of European culture and its primary faustian symbols was to be the basis of his ‘ Europe a Nation ’ campaign after the Second World War . |
| 24 | To take one example out of many , the native Englishman D. H. Lawrence reached just the same conclusion as Pound at just the same time , and Lawrence 's letters record it ; he concluded , just as Pound did , that England after the First World War was , for the artist , uninhabitable . |
| 25 | The panels were commissioned by James A. de Rothschild for his London house in St James 's Place when he and his wife came to live in England after the First World War . |
| 26 | The Damianis had bought the decrepit domed buildings from the Jaffa municipality and for several decades after the First World War the name of Damiani was proudly displayed in English and Arabic over the vaulted gateway where Turkish pashas once administered the law . |
| 27 | Sea Change and its successors have something in them of the career novel , a popular genre in the first decades after the Second World War , as well as the more general intention of inspiring youth to purposeful activity and ambitions . |
| 28 | On all four they found that tolerance increased nationally in the four decades after the Second World War . |
| 29 | Lord Home , the former Conservative prime minister , said if Mr Gorbachev 's reforms were to show results , an enormous programme of reconstruction on the scale of the Marshall Plan after the second world war would be required . |
| 30 | The first generation to find itself in the vanguard after the second world war mistrusted opera , felt its connections with the old order too oppressive . |