Example sentences of "[adj] world [noun sg] when [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their position as outsiders was not transformed until the outbreak of the Second World War when it was Chamberlain 's ardent supporters , the ‘ appeasers ’ who became the outsiders and the ‘ guilty men ’ . |
| 2 | He was succeeded by F. W. Anderson who acted as palaeontologist in Edinburgh until 1953 except for the period of the Second World War when he was in the army . |
| 3 | The only break in his time at the store , also known as the Man 's Shop , came during the Second World War when he joined the RAF and served in the Middle East . |
| 4 | WE ALL , I reckon , feel a nostalgia for the days before the First World War when we read that travel was simpler and you could go down to Victoria and light out for the Continent without bothering about a passport . |
| 5 | ‘ It was just at the end of the First World War when I went into the seminary . |