Example sentences of "just before the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fair gradually declined during the 1930 's and ceased just before the Second World War ; but it has continued to be proclaimed each St Swithin 's Day , except when this falls on a Sunday and then the custom usually takes place on the following day . |
| 2 | it was only just before the Second World War that simultaneous interpreting became possible ( as well as acceptable ) at conferences . |
| 3 | The violently anti-modernist spirit lived on , however , and just before the Second World War found expression in a thirteen volume , wholly uncritical commentary on the Old Testament by an Italian priest , Dolindo Ruotolo . |
| 4 | John Betjeman , the former Poet Laureate , wrote just before the Second World War ( 'Slough' in Skelton , 1964 , p. 74 ) : |
| 5 | The rural population , as defined in the census , fell from a peak of 9.1 million in 1861 to a low of 7.3 million just before the Second World War . |
| 6 | She was brought up in France just before the Second World War , but as an adolescent she was sent to spend a year with relatives in Germany where she was forced to remain when fighting broke out . |