Example sentences of "[noun sg] since the [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | YORK Minster 's bells rang out over the city for the first time in six months at the weekend their longest break since the Second World War . |
| 2 | The other team in question — the main one , anyway -is that of the French , whose new philosophies and related experiments in fiction have often helped sustain the initiatives of modernism since the Second World War . |
| 3 | Hence Britain has suffered increasingly from an international demonstration effect since the Second World War . |
| 4 | This phenomena is the increasing penetration of political and economic life by the military since the Second World War . |
| 5 | Alameda has been a navy town since the second world war . |
| 6 | And Gallup found that more than half of Americans polled were ‘ favourably ’ disposed towards Gorbachev , the highest rating for any Soviet leader since the Second World War . |
| 7 | The lecture he gave and the responses it provoked form perhaps the most widely read debate in jurisprudence in Britain in the period since the Second World War . |
| 8 | Historical accounts of the more recent period are , generally speaking , still to be written , as is an overall review of social policy development since the Second World War . |
| 9 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 10 | That was the best relative performance by Britain in any decade since the second world war . |
| 11 | The first is that an understanding of the history of the Association promises to yield an interesting perspective on the wider process of town and country planning since the Second World War . |
| 12 | This time round , other things being equal , that indicator suggests the second-shortest recession since the second world war : that is , between six and eight months . |
| 13 | Although Mr Kinnock has modernised Labour and ditched many of its vote-losing socialist policies , he has failed to convince the country to put its trust in him despite the country suffering the longest recession since the Second World War . |
| 14 | Labour had taken on a flagging government in the midst of the longest recession since the last world war . |
| 15 | It was the lowest decade of house building since the Second World War . |
| 16 | Evolution rather than revolution is also imposed by the British system of government , which has given the country twenty-one Ministers of Defence since the Second World War . |
| 17 | ITALY 'S ruling Christian Democrats appear to have suffered their most severe setback in any general election since the Second World War , according to first results and projections last night . |
| 18 | It represented the first deployment of German armed forces outside German territory since the Second World War . |
| 19 | D J Taylor — who had a heated exchange with Lawrence Norfolk , a BOYB author who was in the audience — captured the mood of the debate : ‘ I think the real importance of the promotion lies in the fact that it draws people 's attention to British fiction , and provides the backdrop for a much wider discussion about the relative decline of the English novel since the Second World War . ’ |
| 20 | While extensive tracts of virgin forest remain from which sawnwood and plywood are derived , there has been a growing trend since the Second World War towards fibre-based products from plantations and second- and third-growth forests . |
| 21 | Mr Bérégovoy , who so prided himself as a good manager , had to hear Edouard Balladur , the new prime minister , describe the economy as being in its worst state since the second world war . |
| 22 | ‘ The NHS stands on a par with any achievements of any government of any nation since the Second World War . |
| 23 | Protectionism since the Second World War , particularly , erm , has grown rapidly , however , there was , you know , we , agricultural protectionism is n't a thing erm , is n't a , a recent phenomenon , agricultural protectionism was around in the U K er , in the last century , eighteen twenties , erm , the , the corn laws , as they , as they were called , that was erm , a major , major set of tariffs on imports of er wheat primarily into the U K , prior , prior to that erm , in the seventeenth century , in sort of sixteen hundreds , alright , the U K used to be a net exporter , of our wheat , and we had a comparative advantage in those , in those times . |
| 24 | The last general election in March 1987 [ see p. 35091 ] brought to power a four-party coalition led by Harri Holkeri , the first conservative Prime Minister since the Second World War . |
| 25 | During the rest of the 1990s the number of youngsters entering the workforce each year will be smaller than at any time since the second world war ; but two-fifths will be from minorities , mostly Hispanics and blacks . |
| 26 | Recreation , tourism and sport are products of the industrial era , and especially the result of increasing leisure time since the Second World War . |
| 27 | Indeed , under Labour governments professional economists experienced — and probably enjoyed — more political limelight than at any time since the Second World War . |
| 28 | A second problem is that corporate profits are already depressed , having declined for three years in a row for the first time since the second world war . |
| 29 | In 1976 , unemployment in Britain passed the one-million mark for the first time since the Second World War . |
| 30 | Mr Wriglesworth added : ‘ I have no doubt that this election will come to be seen as the key to the recovery from the worst recession in the housing market since the Second World War . |