Example sentences of "period [prep] the first world " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet by 1914 agriculture was firmly in second place to industry in the American economy and although farmers enjoyed a boom period during the First World War , their problems were to become clear in the 1920s . |
| 2 | Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War . |
| 3 | Signac , who continued his activity as a print-maker into the period after the First World War , uses the graphic medium superbly . |
| 4 | The value of this approach became most evident in the period after the First World War , which many regard as marking the terminus of the era of belief in continuous evolutionary progress of human society . |
| 5 | In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War . |
| 6 | The adjustment mechanism did not work very effectively in such circumstances , as the history of the operation of the gold standard in the period after the First World War indicates . |
| 7 | And the period after the First World War was a watershed in the battle against oppressive hours of working . |
| 8 | In the period after the First World War Labour replaced the Liberals as one of the two major parties in the Commons without the aid of proportional representation , but we will have to wait and see whether the Liberal-SDP Alliance can fight back into Parliament under the established first-past-the-post electoral system . |
| 9 | Leith remained active throughout the period of the first World War but traffic decreased from 4.8 million tons in 1913 to 1.7 million tons by 1918 . |
| 10 | The relevant situation of utterance can therefore be identified as the historical period of the First World War , in which the poem was actually composed and first received by its contemporary readers . |
| 11 | Taken together , the studies carried out by social , economic and political revisionists have opened the way to a far-reaching reassessment of the dynamics of popular unrest during Nicholas II 's reign , the role of the revolutionary intelligentsia , the prospects of stable capitalist and western-style democratic development in the period before the First World War , and the drama of 1917 itself . |