Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the first world " in BNC.

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1 This happens in the First World as well as in the Third World .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Author of All the Sweet Promises turns to the first World War .
6 The signalling dates from the First World War and will cost £400 000 to replace .
7 What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ?
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