Example sentences of "[num ord] world [noun sg] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 2 | During the Second World War a nudist village for evacuee naturists was set up twenty miles outside London . |
| 3 | Just after the Second World War a film crew made a documentary about life in rural England . |
| 4 | Immediately following the nationalisation of the coal-mines in Britain at the end of the Second World War a team of social scientists from the Tavistock Institute in London began an extensive series of studies of work organisation in that industry . |
| 5 | In the period of technological innovation following the second world war a group of human relations specialists , working from the Tavistock Institute in London , noted that the social behaviour of workers and their organisational structure in groups and teams was influenced by the technical systems associated with that work . |
| 6 | From the end of the First World War a body claiming to be the Korean government in exile functioned at Shanghai and afterwards , during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–45 , at Chungking . |
| 7 | During the First World War a box of matches cost 1d and a matchbox grip 4d : a price just substantial enough to warrant a ‘ Thank you ’ when given free to a pub or grocer 's store customer , and just substantial enough to make money for a stationer or the many charities which sold them . |
| 8 | During the First World War a number of Ministries set up regional offices and the newly created Ministry of Health set up nine regions — an experiment to be rudely terminated in 1921 as an economy measure . |