Example sentences of "[adj] to the first [noun sg] war " in BNC.
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| 1 | That struggle shaped Germany for the subsequent two centuries and it also determined much of the shape of Europe prior to the First World War . |
| 2 | In the twenty years prior to the First World War there were numerous incidents of football hooliganism . |
| 3 | Prior to the First World War unrelieved hostility towards the Jews , which expressed both obsession with their alleged power and ascribed to them filthy moral and personal habits , was rare . |
| 4 | During the decade prior to the First World War there was some discussion of proposals for the state maintenance of children . |
| 5 | The German scheme of cheap overnight accommodation dated from the years prior to the First World War and had its origin in the central European tradition of ‘ wanderlust ’ . |
| 6 | In Britain , conflict was most severe prior to the First World War , when the power to call out the police and troops lay in the hands of local employer/magistrate , and occasions like the General Strike of 1926 when fears of a worker revolution were aroused . |
| 7 | Okay , erm , before the First World War , agriculture 's share of world trade was over fifty percent , a half of our , of all world trade prior to the First World War was agricultural products , alright . |