Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] the [num ord] [noun] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Happy as a Sandbag , A musical review of the 1940s , which opens tonight , features songs , dances and acts from the Second World War . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | What evidence is there of this kind of behaviour at football matches before the First World War or in the inter-war period ? |