Example sentences of "the years [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in the years between the First and Second World Wars that this enthusiasm was at its height . |
| 2 | Needless to say , these measures proved effective , and Persian weavers went back to using natural dyes until the more reliable chrome dyes were introduced in the years between the First and Second World Wars . |
| 3 | This music , incidentally , was a vital influence in British and American bourgeois domestic song , an influence which can in fact be traced right through to the years after the First World War , in such singers as Al Jolson . |
| 4 | Sexuality was a major political issue in the suffrage movement.During the years before the First War the history of sexual politics became intimately bound up with the progress of feminism . |
| 5 | Though purity remained hegemonic in the years before the First War , there was another feminist strategy for speaking about sex . |
| 6 | This military model of the disciplined body , responding instantly to word of command , remained paramount in the years before the First War . |
| 7 | It was the changed set of political and social conditions in the years before the First War which paved the way for the re-emergence of an alliance between medics , natural scientists and the established church . |
| 8 | This process was to gain momentum in the last three decades of the nineteenth century , reaching a peak in the years before the First World War . |