Example sentences of "the [num] world war " in BNC.
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| 1 | The political breakdown was manifested in the two world wars , in the Holocaust , in the severity of the slump , in the doctrines of Nazism and totalitarian communism , both of which were a defilement of human nature . |
| 2 | At the end of WWII , the Beverley , East Yorks firm of Richard Hodgson 's Tannery had a Memorial to those employees who lost their lives in the two world wars displayed on the outside wall of their social club . |
| 3 | Its duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the forces of the Commonwealth who died in the two world wars , to build and maintain memorials to the dead whose graves are unknown , and to keep records and registers . |
| 4 | They remember also that the Dominions came voluntarily to our aid in the two world wars : we would be in honour bound to do likewise if any of them came under threat . |
| 5 | While few Whitehall officials disputed the need for nuclear weapons to damp out the possibility of a recurrence of the conventional-weapon slaughter of the two World Wars , Sandys had breached a fundamental principle of British military policy — the maintenance of balanced military forces able to react to the unforeseen . |
| 6 | We have Remembrance Sunday each year in November to remember the two World Wars and the men who fought in them . |
| 7 | The long-term stagnation and the Great Depression of the interwar years , not to mention the two World Wars themselves , separated the Great Powers economically in clear-cut economic empires . |
| 8 | Any attempt , in the period between the two World Wars , to raise the school-leaving age or to provide secondary education on a more generous scale was for these reasons bound to encounter sustained political opposition . |
| 9 | Since the turn of the century there have been brief periods when Britain has been more or less self-sufficient in cereals , meat , and dairy produce — during the two World Wars , and today , under the extraordinary economics of the European Community . |
| 10 | They made guns and shells — and much money — in the two World Wars . |
| 11 | Similarly , the stagnation in student numbers between the two world wars was true of most British universities . |
| 12 | Sir Robert Donald , writing between the two world wars , described them as : ‘ a somewhat primitive community . |
| 13 | But this book is not meant to be a history of Jewish conquest , only a true story , in brief , of one family , in the Gorbals of Glasgow between the two World Wars . |
| 14 | Afforestation began between the two World Wars to provide Britain with home-grown wood , particularly for pit props ; used in the trenches . |
| 15 | Even the two World Wars did not stop the race being ‘ ridd yearly ’ , but the snows of 1947 almost did . |
| 16 | Black Mill also served a useful purpose during the two world wars , when it was used as a look-out by the army . |
| 17 | Another major event which has affected the British economy is the decline of the British Empire and Commonwealth , linked as it was in a major way to the two world wars of this century . |
| 18 | During the two world wars it rose very rapidly and then fell when peace was restored . |
| 19 | The lights went out during the two world wars and the austerity years which followed , so although this year is actually the 80th anniversary , it 's only the 60th display . |
| 20 | The RAF said : ‘ These days we have a different attitude to signs of stress and battle fatigue than they did , perhaps , in the two world wars . ’ |
| 21 | From the period between the two World Wars , the main surviving agreement on the laws of war is the 1925 Geneva Protocol on Gas and Bacteriological Warfare . |
| 22 | The increasing accuracy of weapons — even those delivered by aircraft and rocket — may reopen some possibilities for discrimination in targeting that seemed to be closed in the air operations of the two World Wars . |
| 23 | The preceding age of English literature , after all , between the two world wars , had been notably un-British : its finest poets an American called T. S. Eliot and an Irishman called W. B. Yeats , its greatest novelists — Bloomsbury apart — James Joyce and a handful of Americans who , for the most part , had preferred to stay at home . |
| 24 | If this exhibition means to report on the whole of twentieth-century American modernism then it has left out a great deal in the period between the two world wars ; work that is historically important and good even though sometimes ‘ provincial ’ with respect to Europe . |
| 25 | Another very important school of sociological research developed under the influence of Robert E. Park ( 1864–1944 ) at the University of Chicago in the period between the two world wars . |
| 26 | Their influence is apparent in the work of the anthropologists who were working in the period between the two world wars . |
| 27 | Cricket in the 20th century has pulled in large crowds only in the aftermath of the two world wars ; after such horrors , people needed the spiritual balm of this most philosophic of games . |
| 28 | In France the post-mortem period is , typically , fifty years but those authors and artists affected by the two World Wars were granted a prolongation of the copyright term , giving an effective expiry of just over sixty-four years after their death . |
| 29 | The restructuring of the British economy in the depression years between the two world wars was accompanied by a movement of population into the south-east of the country . |
| 30 | In addition , social and economic changes during and after the two world wars diminished some of the concentration of landholding and investments . |