Example sentences of "first world [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In bald form , Middlemas argues that around the time of the First World War the nineteenth-century British political system had broken down under the weight of the antagonism and conflicts in industrial society . |
| 2 | From then until the suspension of elections during the first world war the Labour Party ( as it now was ) and Municipal Alliance fought with roughly equal strength for municipal control , and indirectly for parliamentary seats , although for most of the time the Alliance retained power . |
| 3 | During the First World War the red cars of the Corporation were seen more regularly at Squires Gate , where there was a military camp . |
| 4 | After the First World War the voluntary hospitals faced a severe and growing financial crisis . |
| 5 | Twenty-one years after the end of the First World War the British people were subjected to a second war , which , while it produced only half as many British military casualties as the first , struck more radically at the lives of ordinary civilians . |
| 6 | During the First World War the little colony of gifted foreigners in Montparnasse and French artists unfit for military service was increasingly shunned by the rest of society at a time when xenophobia was rife and contempt for any man out of uniform was universal . |
| 7 | Oh yes it says this is the first world cup the new way of playing the qualifying rounds , this is the first world cup where every team has to play each other and it should mean the best sides make the semi-finals . |