Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun] war [conj] it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government was very much more ready to mobilize all the nation 's resources in the Second World War than it had been in the First . |
| 2 | Indeed , the authorities made no move against the organization during the Second World War and it continued its activities unmolested . |
| 3 | The risk of an even greater concentration of power , and the attendant risk of its mis-use , was recognised after the Second World War and it meant the pre-war attempts of active buying out were never resumed . |
| 4 | It was the First World War because it affected most of the people of the world . |
| 5 | And the outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 looked so very like the preliminaries to the Third World War that it led to Eisenhower again becoming the Allied Supreme Commander , Europe , with Montgomery as his deputy in November to prepare resistance to a probable Soviet invasion across the Iron Curtain . |