Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [prep] the inter-war years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the sustained economic recession of the inter-war years it was thought that the economy automatically moved towards full employment , even though periodic booms and slumps were experienced at the time . |
| 2 | In general those rural areas experiencing persistent loss during the inter-war years were the uplands and other remote places ( which in a generation or so would experience a surprising resurgence ) ; in contrast , persistent increases occurred in rural places adjacent to the large urban areas . |
| 3 | The social investigations of the inter-war years and the literature of concern about unemployment and other social problems prepared the ground for wartime legislation . |
| 4 | Manufacturing industry had been particularly affected by very high rates of inter-firm mobility during the inter-war years when average turnover of skilled labour was more than 50 per cent per annum . |
| 5 | Yet , though the concept of class is vague , with social and economic divisions acting only imperfectly to distinguish social groups , the major occupational categories persisted in giving a sufficient basis for social distinction during the inter-war years , even though many differences between social classes were blurred at the margins . |
| 6 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 7 | Although character and aesthetic ideals differentiated Williamson from post-war society more radically than the large majority of the participants in the conflict , an analysis of his work helps to explain why other idealists and embittered individuals at all levels of the movement should turn to fascism as a solution to the problems of British society in the inter-war years . |
| 8 | Amongst a large number of writings , Unemployed Struggles , 1919–1936 ( 1936 ) , The Problem of the Distressed Areas ( 1937 ) , Ten Lean Years ( 1940 ) , and his unfinished autobiography , Never on Our Knees ( 1967 ) , are important polemical documents of the inter-war years . |
| 9 | Unemployment dominated British politics during the inter-war years . |
| 10 | But it should be remembered that such hesitation was an endemic feature of British politics during the inter-war years and was even exhibited in the 1930s when fascism , that other major problem of the age , threatened to consume Britain and Europe . |
| 11 | Where the palace , the temple , and the cathedral had inspired their Victorian predecessors , British station-builders of the inter-war years chose more ‘ democratic ’ models — the cinema ( Surbiton ) , the bank ( Exmouth ) , and , with unintended irony , the garage ( West Monkseaton ) . |
| 12 | However , the effects of urban growth on rural communities had been recognized as long ago as the late 1930s , when Ashby ( 1939 ) argued that the unbalanced age structure and uneconomic service provision caused by rural depopulation had been offset by the spread of urban population into the rural areas in the inter-war years . |
| 13 | Because he was literate and articulate , he showed a bitter contempt for the self-appointed intellectuals of the inter-war years . |
| 14 | Some sections of the Trades Union Congress still felt that the central problem of the inter-war years was unemployment and that , in a way , a slow down in population would not be a bad thing . |
| 15 | In 1922 it planned the first of a series of national hunger marches which were to become the NUWCM 's principal contribution to the inter-war years . |
| 16 | Rubinstein has demonstrated , the rich managed to protect and retain most of their wealth and income despite the more democratic nature of society in the twentieth century and the challenge posed by two Labour governments during the inter-war years . |
| 17 | There are then two aspects of the working class fertility pattern to be explained : first the slower rate of decline during the period before World War I , and second , the rapid decrease during the inter-war years . |
| 18 | Also , the amalgamation of unions which occurred at a rapid pace throughout the inter-war years greatly improved the organization and effectiveness of the trade union movement as the years progressed . |
| 19 | Len Harvey , the leading middleweight in the inter-war years , fought 412 contests . |
| 20 | Alternatively , it is possible that the decline occurred because of the economic conditions of the inter-war years . |
| 21 | The fundamental political changes of the inter-war years were probably inevitable by 1918 , though their pace may have been determined by the level of unemployment and the extent of social and economic reform . |
| 22 | It seemed to have the knack of attracting some of the most bizarre characters who spent a great deal of the inter-war years building up little empires for themselves with scant regard for any overall espionage policy . |
| 23 | The Twenty Years ' Crisis was a sustained critique of the way in which utopian thought had dominated international relations in the inter-war years . |
| 24 | Since the advent of mass electricity is one of the most striking features of the inter-war years , the project pays close attention to the manner in which these innovations associated with this phenomenon were viewed by the public . |
| 25 | Stopes 's fundamental conception of the role of the clinics led to a heated political debate during the inter-war years as the issue was fought within political parties and in parliament . |
| 26 | The second ring was in effect suburban London , representing the ribboning , scatter and sporadic development of the inter-war years . |
| 27 | It is not an over-simplification to describe the industrial experience of the inter-war years in terms of moth balling until about 1936 and then as hell-for-leather toward war . |
| 28 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 29 | They represented about half the total number of families of the country and more than 60 per cent of the population , and were those which were most afflicted by the economic ravages of the inter-war years . |
| 30 | In pursuing the campaign for family allowances ( initially intended to provide the mother with a wage as well as allowances for children ) , mainstream feminists of the inter-war years were picking up one of the major demands of labour women 's groups prior to World War I and consciously taking on board social issues of importance to working class women . |