Example sentences of "for the [num ord] world war " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of MPs protested that it was ‘ totally unacceptable ’ for the Second World War to be omitted from the national curriculum for 7 to 14-year-olds . |
| 2 | He admitted the great debt which the country owed to Churchill for the Second World War . |
| 3 | Where there are gaps ( for instance in the Russian population statistics for the second world war ) , skilled statisticians can sometimes carry out very elaborate reconstructions of the missing data by using what is known . |
| 4 | Well if you remember that the Jarrow marches and the general strike were n't very many years erm you know be behind the preparations that were going on for the second world war . |
| 5 | The SS Samtampa , built for the Second World War , ended its life near Porthcawl . |
| 6 | The spokesman for the First World War Veterans ' Association , Trafford joined up at 15 on the first day of the war , giving his age as 18 . |
| 7 | We agreed to have him for a fortnight but when the time came he refused to go , and would be with us yet if it had not been for the First World War and your father having to go … |
| 8 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 9 | For the First World War aircraft enthusiast this publication offers a detailed look at one of Germany 's most widely used fighter types . |
| 10 | Had it not been for the First World War I might have been sent to school in England , separated indefinitely from my parents , as was the fate of so many English children whose fathers served in India or elsewhere in the East . |
| 11 | I enjoyed ‘ Futility ’ very much as it is poem with a message for all people and like most of Wilfred Owen 's poems it is timeless and has a meaning not only for the first World War but for wars to come . |
| 12 | The station as a point of departure literally and metaphorically took on a particular intensity for the post-First World War generation of young British literati . |