Example sentences of "the world began [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly after this they sold their 20% stake in Adobe , netting a huge profit in the process , and the world began to take notice of what looked like an interesting scenario . |
| 2 | Few people believed that a market for such high priced machines existed , but Cray continued to increase sales and growth , until eventually many other companies from around the world began building such supercomputers . |
| 3 | The secretary-general of the UN , Boutros Boutros-Ghali , announced this week that UN troops might have to be pulled out of Croatia unless relations between Croats and Serbs in UN-patrolled enclaves there improved and the world began to pay its peacekeeping bills . |
| 4 | Though the production function approach was subjected to a great deal of criticism from the start , this criticism increased very substantially in the 1970s as the economies of the world began to stagnate . |
| 5 | Identifying the one on which the world began proved tricky . |
| 6 | People from all over the world began to make pilgrimages to Monkey Mia and some 200,000 visitors arrived during the 1989 season . |
| 7 | But as the economies of other countries around the world began to collapse , it became increasingly clear that the Depression was no brief passing phase . |