Example sentences of "since the first [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until this year it had hardly occurred in Latin America since the first world war , when indentured workers stopped arriving from Asia . |
| 2 | Since the First World War the railways in the developed world have been in decline , their role usurped by motor transport and in particular the car . |
| 3 | For decades ( since the First World War ) society has encouraged smoking , depicting it as glamorous , soothing , attractive . |
| 4 | Many such branch operations currently have most of their taxable investment income determined according to apportionment rules that have changed little since the First World War and have become increasingly inappropriate . |
| 5 | The Tremaynes owned a few acres where Tom , disabled since the First World War , grew early tomatoes and potatoes and , in peacetime , daffodils . |
| 6 | But the first shake-up since the First World War does mean a deep-seated reform in the principle behind the choice of names in the Birthday and New Year Honours lists . |
| 7 | Very broadly , his conclusion is that class inequalities in education — at least for boys — have changed very little since the First World War . |
| 8 | Orford Ness , where a staff of 2,000 once worked , has been involved in national defence research and development since the First World War when aircraft fitted with armaments were first tested.Research into bomb ballistics was carried out from 1929 and among the researchers was Barnes Wallis who became famous for inventing the bouncing bombs used against the Mohne and Eder dams during the Second World War . |
| 9 | Major smallpox may have become extinct in Britain since the First World War , with all subsequent cases imported ( Gale 1959 ) . |
| 10 | This chapter will describe the course of fertility since the First World War , relate its trend to social and economic change , and discuss some of the differences in fertility within British society . |
| 11 | Indeed , since the First World War , the development of archaeology has accelerated dramatically . |
| 12 | Since the First World War , it has been recognised that the Prime Minister has the undisputed right to choose the date of a general election by asking the Crown for a dissolution of Parliament . |
| 13 | In the years since the First World War , trucks had come to transport 100 million tons of farm produce per annum directly to the cities . |
| 14 | Winter Marsh has been an army training ground since the First World War . |
| 15 | He had known Eliot since the First World War , and at that time and until the poet 's death in 1965 , he was seeing him frequently . |
| 16 | Over the decades since the First World War , with the introduction of new forms of energy , the development of labour saving devices and changes in food and menus , there have been radical changes in kitchen design . |
| 17 | Never since the first world war have we had homeless teenage children begging in the streets . |