Example sentences of "that [vb past] the [adj] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the silence that followed the outside world gradually reasserted itself . |
| 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 . |
| 6 | The recession that hit the financial world in the late 1980s led to a rapid fall in spending , and a resultant pruning of staff . |
| 7 | It was the kings ' collective identity as a family , clearly marked out by their distinctive names , that gave the Carolingian world a political unity underlying successive partitions . |
| 8 | There are , however , remnants of the unexplained mystery that rocked the developed world of 1560 . |