Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the world in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He had become a major in the military at twenty four and achieved much in the world in prosperity and position , but it had been an uphill climb .
2 This museum has the biggest collection of instruments from all over the world in Europe .
3 They 've got beers from all over the world in Budgens , Mexican , goodness knows what
4 The thousands of items on her shopping list are brought in from all over the world in quantities that could feed a small town — 70 tonnes of sausages , 300 tonnes of tomatoes , 250,000 pints of milk , six million eggs and 350,000 litres of fresh orange juice .
5 Vast amounts of capital and capacity were installed all over the world in expectation of continuing rising demand and no technological change .
6 The legal adviser helps to negotiate the firm 's contracts ( and may have to travel all over the world in order to do so ) , keeps it right on matters of company law and employment law , pilots takeovers , etc. , and may , on a wider front , advise on what is proper conduct within a system of self-regulation adopted within the industry by means of a Code of Practice .
7 Species superficially resembling Terebratula maxima may be found all over the world in rocks going back at least to the Jurassic period .
8 A company called Worldwide Tours produces a publication called Special Interest Tours , which covers holidays all over the world in categories from Adventure/Activity to Wine Tasting Festivals .
9 The final realization of the New Depression , brought quietly into the world in May 1979 , with the unsuspecting British electorate as midwife and the Thatcher government as proud foster-parent ( the natural parents are holed up even now in the boardrooms of the multi-national corporations ) , coincided with rumblings of some significance from the separate continental plates of the fashion world : after a decade in the doldrums ‘ fashion ’ was born again and became a word once more in general use .
10 All fossils found anywhere in the world in rocks of this age can be placed in one or other of those three main groups we identified on the reef .
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