Example sentences of "by the [num ord] world " in BNC.

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1 The number of radio licences rose from two to eight million between 1926 and 1939 with 71 per cent of all households having a wireless by the Second World War .
2 He began law practice , which was interrupted by the second world war .
3 But their spirit had entirely vanished by the Second World War .
4 In need of a cheap , large labour force after the economic and social havoc wrought by the Second World War , migration from the Caribbean and other ‘ New Commonwealth , countries was encouraged by both commercial and public sector British employers .
5 Professor Miller proceeded to the changes in psychology wrought by the Second World War , which was interesting .
6 If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis .
7 It came into being to respond to two needs , a scientific need for machines more powerful than could be afforded by any single nation in a Europe devastated by the second world war , and the political need for institutions to unite that fragmented continent .
8 Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War .
9 But there was nearly always a small group of so-called " mature students ' , who had failed to get to college when they left school ( due to illness , perhaps , or economic circumstances or the disruption caused by the Second World War of 1939–45 ) .
10 ‘ People coming and going ’ were to provide Bischof 's subject matter in the eight years of life that remained to him after his meeting with Rosellina ; people in camps , people displaced by the Second World War and then by the regional wars that succeeded it , from Eastern Europe to Indochina , and from Scandinavia to Japan .
11 Commercial interests were quick to recognize the scale of popular interest in the outdoors , but whilst the outdoors had become integral to everyday life in Britain by the Second World War , it continued to represent in some of its expressions a relatively uncommercialized leisure culture .
12 By the Second World War , many of the voluntary hospitals were still in serious financial trouble , a problem the war helped solve , at least temporarily , as the government paid large sums for the treatment of war casualties ( Titmuss , 1950 ) .
13 This department , consisting of salaried solicitors employed by the Law Society with government funds , dealt with the matrimonial problems occasioned by the Second World War .
14 Taking note of the great suffering caused by the Second World War , " particularly the loss of their homes suffered by numerous Germans and Poles due to expulsion or resettlement " , the treaty confirmed that the Polish-German border , as determined by the July 1950 agreement between Poland and East Germany , by later implementing agreements ( of January 1951 and May 1989 ) and by the December 1970 Warsaw Treaty , was inviolable .
15 The earlier phases of his career had been dominated by the Second World War , the Cold War and the threat of a Third World War , and the Algerian War .
16 It would appear that there was some increase in the marriage rates among those in their early twenties during the early 1920s , perhaps because of the delays caused by the First World War , and after 1934 , when the domestic economy began to revive from the worst excesses of the slump .
17 His ‘ fascist ’ ideas had first been shaped by the First World War , which he felt Britain should not have entered .
18 By the First World War it was C.T .
19 Only in the United States and in Britain was there no element of state control by the First World War .
20 By the First World War both the Canadian Northern and the GTP , shackled with loss-making mountain railroads , were in deep financial difficulties .
21 Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War .
22 Rather more ideologically committed to a new form of politics were those for whom anti-semitism was seen as the reason for the changes in British and European society engendered by the first World War .
23 Fascism resulted from the frustration with , and alienation from , a system in which politicians were obsessed with the conventions of party politics to the detriment of the need for radical change ( highlighted by the First World War ) ; and radical change was vital if Britain 's accelerated economic and political decline was to be reversed .
24 The fact that Mosley was turned into a reforming politician by the First World War highlighted his dilemma .
25 British fascism originated in several distinct and contradictory reaction to the long-term decline of Britain and the dislocation caused by the First World War .
26 In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way .
27 From this grim situation the party was saved by the First World War .
28 but a large group in the party were scarred by the First World War for the rest of their lives .
29 And despite massive obstacles — the destruction caused by the First World War , the ravages of a civil war brought on by the support that foreign capitalists lent the savage counter-revolutionary efforts of Russia 's defeated classes , international isolation in the inter-war period , the appalling destruction wrought by Hitler 's rapacious invasion , the sustained hostility of the capitalist West — a socialist society was built .
30 By the First World War , musical production and dissemination are coming to be concentrated in a new alliance consisting of a centralized publishing system ( in New York 's Tin Pan Alley and London 's Denmark Street ) , the quickly developing gramophone companies ( by 1910 dominated , world-wide , by Victor of the USA and the Gramophone Co. of Britain ) and , a little later , the new medium of radio ; by the late 1920s , we can add the movie industry as well .
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