Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happens in the First World as well as in the Third World . |
| 2 | Almost all of what was said about this in Chapter 3 is relevant wherever TNCs create jobs , but there are some additional factors to be considered where this occurs in the Third World . |
| 3 | Right O K yeah that 's the other major erm feature is that agriculture 's share of world trade has declined and manufacturing er share of world trade has increased and I 've got some er some numbers here erm so it says before the first world war agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , today it is less than fourteen percent okay , so agriculture 's share in world trade is declining and has been declining er essentially over the the last sort of seventy years or so . |
| 4 | For all her action-seeking , caring cosmopolitanism , she is imperial-insular in outlook , and soon sees through the Third World . |
| 5 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |
| 6 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 7 | In addition the EC developed important trading links to the Third World . |
| 8 | ‘ Raised ’ from the ruck , originally , by his family 's wealth , he does n't want to ‘ sink ’ , and rejects ‘ the idea of defeat ’ that prevails in the Third World : ‘ I 'm tired of being on the losing side . |
| 9 | Only the defeat of Germany in 1945 made it possible for a satisfactory study of German war aims in the first world war to be undertaken . |
| 10 | Author of All the Sweet Promises turns to the first World War . |
| 11 | He 's in favour of it , perhaps even likes it , and approves of the Third World rather as some of the English also evince my approval , Malcolm Lowry and Graham Greene among them . |
| 12 | The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace . |
| 13 | Furthermore , two-earner couples enjoy greater allowances ( 2.6SA ) than single-earner couples ( 1.6SA ) , a provision that dates from the Second World War when there was a policy to encourage married women to work . |
| 14 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |
| 15 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
| 16 | Britain 's Overseas Development Administration has its Manual of Environmental Appraisal which will presumably apply as much to East Europe as it does to the Third World . |
| 17 | About four-fifths of all phosphate raw material comes from the Third World . |