Example sentences of "have [verb] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxfam 's work has brought the third world closer to home . |
| 2 | The subtraction from ‘ traditional ’ aid flows implied by Western Europe 's impassioned concern for East Europe has worried the Third World , as its diplomats make clear every time they find a receptive ear . |
| 3 | Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup . |
| 4 | They had entered the Second World War opposed in attitude , and emerged little changed . |
| 5 | The United States had entered the Second World War with a very limited overseas basing system , but by the close of the war had acquired a massive global basing network ‘ derived from a combination of conquests , agreements with allies , and temporary arrangements with neutrals and exile regimes that had at least the potential for post-war renewal and extension ’ . |
| 6 | The invention of the tank and the aircraft broke through the defensive stalemate that had characterised the first world war . |