Example sentences of "than [art] [num ord] world " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only year where they coincide is nineteen twenty , the great erm influenza epidemic actually killed more people than the first world war , and er as you 'll see , despite increasing trends in health care which have reduced the overall rate , the difference in death rate between males and females has remained in the same or , if anything , widened slightly in recent years . |
| 2 | But the groups had historic scores to settle with each other , some of the nastiest no older than the second world war . |
| 3 | ( We must remember that this was closer to them than the Second World War is to us . ) |
| 4 | First , it revived international concern over what had often been called the ‘ forgotten war ’ — although it had by then lasted longer than the Second World War , it was still far from being brought to a formal end . |
| 5 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 6 | Those of course would have to qualify according to the rules of technical assistance and British aid , but in principle the study seminars are certainly open and we normally have people from countries other than the Third World ones . |