Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] [art] first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 2 | Of course , there are relatively as well as absolutely very many more poor people in the Third World than in the First World but this is not only a question of geography but also of transnational class location . |
| 3 | Regular air services , by aeroplane , did not start until after the First World War . |
| 4 | Coronary heart disease is essentially a modern Western disease and was rare , even in Western countries , until after the First World War . |
| 5 | And it was n't really until after the First World War when things really sort of er got started and er women sort of carried on and , and they do take jobs and occupations er that they sort of really came into their own . |
| 6 | We travelled back and forth between England and India until I was seven when , because of the First World War , we did not leave India for five idyllic years from 1915 . |
| 7 | Between 1912 and 1930 their most successful period was 1914–18 when all football was suspended because of the First World War . |
| 8 | Mrs Belgrove , a 32-year-old agricultural graduate , started by hacking down trees and giant weeds , under which were plants such as sedum and aquilegia which had been hidden since before the First World War . |
| 9 | He says he 's never seen anything like it ; he reckons some of the stuff must have been here since before the First World War . |
| 10 | Although there were nearly four times as many conscientious objectors as during the First World War , there was no organization remotely like the NCF . |
| 11 | I it it 's oh no , we do n't want war , we 're all against war , but nobody is prepared to bother actually to go to a meeting or , or pay a small subscription and , and then you w you could of had a very strong United Nations now the same as after the first world war , but it 's the people that did n't do it . |
| 12 | As in the First World War , the imperative need for active working-class collaboration in the war effort greatly enhanced the importance of the labour movement in the industrial and political life of the country . |
| 13 | As in the First World War , the United States was in one respect more fortunate than the other major powers in the Second World War : she avoided either invasion or aerial bombardment . |