Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] [adv] [prep] the war " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a matter of fact er as the years went by we got this benevolent fund and we used to give all the old w as a mat we got a pension fund I know it do n't sound much now , but at that time like during and just after the War we paid twelve and sixpence a week pension to all everybody who 'd retired from the union after they 'd done time , and we also gave them extra grants and took them on er you know outings until a time I said , Well we 're spending all this money on outings , we could buy a bungalow at the seaside and let them all go you know pensioners go in their turn free . |
| 2 | At that time , during and just after the war , Highgate was an area in which a number of scientific and academic people lived . |
| 3 | Though punctuated by frequent flash-backs to the period before , during and just after the war , temporal progression in the present is clearly marked by the development of two narrative lines which weave their ways in and out of the novel . |
| 4 | East London during and just after the war is lovingly portrayed , with an eye and ear for detail which strike a nostalgic chord . |
| 5 | Having mastered all aspects of the department 's work , Oldman rose rapidly through its senior ranks during and just after the war . |
| 6 | In the chemicals and electrical engineering industries multidivisional enterprises such as ICI and Associated Electrical Industries carried out large investment programmes — the chemicals industry stimulated by the removal of German competition during and shortly after the war combined with a world shortage of chemicals , and electrical engineering stimulated by the rapid growth of electricity generation under Citrine ( Shonfield , 1958 ) . |
| 7 | The films give an increasingly wide berth to messy problems like sexuality and violence and , whereas Ealing 's films during and immediately after the war had interrogated what was happening to England , many or those made in the 1950s just do n't seem interested . |
| 8 | They had built up the industry on cheap labour , and their only answer to the challenge of foreign competition was to attempt to cut back the limited improvements in wages and hours which had been secured during and immediately after the war . |