Example sentences of "the [num] world [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The six world religions specified under the GCSE National Criteria are included ( DES , 1985 , 4.3.1 ) , but there is scope for others such as the Bahai faith , as well as for work on distinct traditions within each religion . |
| 2 | Perkins , 18 , took nearly two seconds off the previous best of 14min 50.36sec recorded by Germany 's Joerg Hoffman at the 1991 world championships in Perth . |
| 3 | Disappointed in the 1991 World Championships . |
| 4 | It was a triumphant return to Japan for McColgan , who won gold in the 10,000m at the 1991 World Championships . |
| 5 | We feel Betty Willis may well be a record-breaker with the super-size socks she made for her super-size son-in-law whose super-loud voice gave him fifth place ( out of 100 contestants ) in the 1991 world championships for Town Criers . |
| 6 | David Smith 's Perth , the 1991 world champions , beat Peter Wilson 's Stranraer 11-1 in six ends . |
| 7 | In the last 26 years England have staged only two major events — 1966 European Championships at Wembley and the 1977 World Championships in Birmingham . |
| 8 | Tait intends to remain at his Berkshire base until the 1994 World Championships , after which he may return to his native New Zealand . |
| 9 | It was announced yesterday that Oberstdorf , Germany , has withdrawn as the site for the 1994 World Championships . |
| 10 | The subject of the dialogue was the two world systems , that of Ptolemy and that of Copernicus . |
| 11 | The political breakdown was manifested in the two world wars , in the Holocaust , in the severity of the slump , in the doctrines of Nazism and totalitarian communism , both of which were a defilement of human nature . |
| 12 | At the end of WWII , the Beverley , East Yorks firm of Richard Hodgson 's Tannery had a Memorial to those employees who lost their lives in the two world wars displayed on the outside wall of their social club . |
| 13 | Its duties are to mark and maintain the graves of the members of the forces of the Commonwealth who died in the two world wars , to build and maintain memorials to the dead whose graves are unknown , and to keep records and registers . |
| 14 | They remember also that the Dominions came voluntarily to our aid in the two world wars : we would be in honour bound to do likewise if any of them came under threat . |
| 15 | While few Whitehall officials disputed the need for nuclear weapons to damp out the possibility of a recurrence of the conventional-weapon slaughter of the two World Wars , Sandys had breached a fundamental principle of British military policy — the maintenance of balanced military forces able to react to the unforeseen . |
| 16 | We have Remembrance Sunday each year in November to remember the two World Wars and the men who fought in them . |
| 17 | The long-term stagnation and the Great Depression of the interwar years , not to mention the two World Wars themselves , separated the Great Powers economically in clear-cut economic empires . |
| 18 | Any attempt , in the period between the two World Wars , to raise the school-leaving age or to provide secondary education on a more generous scale was for these reasons bound to encounter sustained political opposition . |
| 19 | Since the turn of the century there have been brief periods when Britain has been more or less self-sufficient in cereals , meat , and dairy produce — during the two World Wars , and today , under the extraordinary economics of the European Community . |
| 20 | They made guns and shells — and much money — in the two World Wars . |
| 21 | Similarly , the stagnation in student numbers between the two world wars was true of most British universities . |
| 22 | Sir Robert Donald , writing between the two world wars , described them as : ‘ a somewhat primitive community . |
| 23 | But this book is not meant to be a history of Jewish conquest , only a true story , in brief , of one family , in the Gorbals of Glasgow between the two World Wars . |
| 24 | Afforestation began between the two World Wars to provide Britain with home-grown wood , particularly for pit props ; used in the trenches . |
| 25 | Even the two World Wars did not stop the race being ‘ ridd yearly ’ , but the snows of 1947 almost did . |
| 26 | Black Mill also served a useful purpose during the two world wars , when it was used as a look-out by the army . |
| 27 | Another major event which has affected the British economy is the decline of the British Empire and Commonwealth , linked as it was in a major way to the two world wars of this century . |
| 28 | During the two world wars it rose very rapidly and then fell when peace was restored . |
| 29 | The lights went out during the two world wars and the austerity years which followed , so although this year is actually the 80th anniversary , it 's only the 60th display . |
| 30 | The RAF said : ‘ These days we have a different attitude to signs of stress and battle fatigue than they did , perhaps , in the two world wars . ’ |