Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [prep] the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its use in Germany during the Second World War provided the most dramatic illustration of the power of the symbol . |
| 2 | Theirs is a distinctive type of cut-price retailing that emerged in Germany after the second world war and is subtly different from its American cousin . |
| 3 | The film , about the effect of war on young men at a United States Air Force base in Cambridgeshire during the Second World War , demanded that Crawford learn to speak with an American accent — in twenty-four hours . |
| 4 | A rapacious British land taxation policy was partly responsible for a series of famines in Bengal in the second half of the eighteenth century , while elsewhere in India the staple foods of the poor such as millet and pulses were displaced by the production for export of grains and commercial crops ( Bagchi , 1982 , pp. 79 , 84 , 86 ) . |
| 5 | Her brother who had been a soldier was killed in Flanders during the Second World War and was buried there . |
| 6 | The development of a civil service style of correctional administration can serve as the starting-point for my main theme , a comparison of Howard 's concerns with the changes , reforms and setbacks of prison administration in Texas since the Second World War . |
| 7 | She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe . |
| 8 | There are examples in Chartres and a few have survived the devastation in Normandy of the Second World War at Lisieux , Caen and Rouen . |
| 9 | Kenneth Taylor , who said he did not receive any extra payment other than his normal wages , was giving evidence at the High Court in Aberdeen on the second day of the trial of Alexander Murray . |
| 10 | Still on the subject of voice , let me remind you of the slogan which heralded the government 's campaign against German spies in England during the Second World War . |
| 11 | They were used as woven decorations to headdresses and the borders of garments found in richer graves in England during the second half of the sixth and early seventh centuries , significantly mainly in Kent . |
| 12 | But after sensing that the confidence was ebbing away from his opponent after reeling in Wilkinson in the second set , Witt 's delivery became more consistent and appropriately he clinched a place in the quarter-finals with his 11th ace . |
| 13 | My grandfather had always taken a keen interest in my work , and I had an equal admiration of the stories of his time spent in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 14 | A prolific author and poet , his best-known book , Beyond the Chindwin , is a restrained account of his experiences as a Column Commander behind the Japanese lines in Burma during the Second World War . |
| 15 | A Masai who acquitted himself well in hand-to-hand fighting in Burma during the Second World War was allowed to keep the samurai sword he captured : ‘ Please do not take this sword away from this soldier ’ , the man 's commanding officer wrote on the wound tag around his neck , ‘ He is a Masai . ’ |
| 16 | In Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate [ 1965 ] AC 75 , HL , the company was successful in its claim for compensation against the Crown for the destruction of its installations in Burma during the Second World War , the destruction having been ordered by the commander of British forces to prevent the installations falling into the hands of the advancing Japanese forces . |
| 17 | A series begins in Thessaly in the second quarter of the century and lasts through several generations . |
| 18 | Yet it was the Burgundians , if anyone , who were the most prestigious people in Gaul in the second decade of the sixth century . |
| 19 | I faced this onslaught yesterday as I became an assistant in Selfridges on the second day of their sale . |
| 20 | How many of the forums are eventually scheduled depends on the level of sponsorship , but the first is already planned for ‘ recovering ’ East European countries which takes place in Budapest in the second quarter of 1993 . |
| 21 | This low-level representation reflected China 's anger over remarks to the Japanese Diet ( parliament ) on Feb. 18 by then Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita denying the Emperor 's responsibility for atrocities committed by the Japanese in China during the Second World War . |
| 22 | The show begins by wondering what paper , where was it invented probably in China in the second century AD and what were its predecessors , namely papyrus from Egypt and tissue from Japan . |
| 23 | As a result , metal-working ( which was hardly developed at all in North American native cultures ) was widespread in Siberia from the second millennium BC , and long before the seventeenth century AD all its indigenous peoples either worked iron themselves or used artefacts made of the precious metal when these could be obtained by trade . |
| 24 | National Drinkwise Day was organised against the background of statistics that show alcohol consumption per head has more than doubled in Britain since the Second World War , with alcohol abuse on the increase among the young . |
| 25 | The Evangelical Charismatic Movement has been described by religious correspondents as the fastest growing part of the Christian Church in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 26 | People were totally amazed that , in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century , someone could be living in such materially deprived conditions , alone , with no water on tap and no electricity , on an income of barely £5 a week — and that she could rise above it with such dignity , inner tranquillity and gentle philosophy . |
| 27 | In Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century , for example , the highest-ranking bureaucrats were drawn from the land-owning class , while the bourgeoisie constituted the hegemonic class . |
| 28 | This is a rare device , not repeated elsewhere in Britain in the second century . |
| 29 | Commercial interests were quick to recognize the scale of popular interest in the outdoors , but whilst the outdoors had become integral to everyday life in Britain by the Second World War , it continued to represent in some of its expressions a relatively uncommercialized leisure culture . |
| 30 | ‘ The studio portraiture movement , flourishing in Britain from the second half of the 19th century until early 1960s , channelled many women into photography as a professional occupation … ’ says Val Williams . |