Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] the first [noun sg] war " in BNC.

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1 William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War .
2 The writings of Ada Nield Chew , a working-class feminist who , between 1894 and the First World War , wrote many newspaper articles on women 's issues and was hostile to the idea of family allowances , have recently been collected together in Ada Nield Chew : The Life and Writings of a Working Woman ( 1982 ) .
3 The Chinese Eastern railway was completed in 1904 , and the Amur railway was developed between 1908 and the First World War .
4 The distribution of wealth and poverty were examined more systematically between 1900 and the first world war than ever before .
5 One-third of the Jewish population of Great Britain lived there and the influx of refugees escaping from persecution in eastern Europe between 1880 and the First World War had exacerbated many of the social problems of this decaying inner city area .
6 The division between the private and the public sphere , which was located both in economic development ( the separation of work and home ) and in social ideology , was by the end of the nineteenth century at the heart of moral discourse ; as a corollary , not surprisingly , the development of social purity was to have profound effects between the 1880s and the First World War on the regulation of sexual behaviour .
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