Example sentences of "that [verb] the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A place with corners that resemble the Third World ’ was his verdict this year on the city 's mixture of new private affluence and public squalor , its Mafia-like interest groups and its grotesque inefficiencies . |
| 2 | But eventually selective breeding turned the tables on quality , and the economic boom that followed the First World War brought an explosion of demand for fur , for the first time a high-fashion commodity . |
| 3 | The political awakening that followed the Second World War and the period when French West Africans were able to elect members to the French Parliament saw the establishment of a few party papers , but few Africans could read them and their circulations were extremely low . |
| 4 | Reviewing the four decades that followed the Second World War , Rowthorn and Wells concluded : |
| 5 | Yet these upward pressures became irresistible in the period of the economic prosperity that followed the Second World War . |