Example sentences of "second [noun sg] [noun sg] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the arguments for first developing nuclear energy in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War was a predicted shortage of coal . |
| 2 | I believe that the Second World War was a war that had to be won not in order to save Western modernity , or to ensure that individualist man would conquer collectivist man , but simply because Hitler posed the greatest threat to the moral order of the world that history had ever seen . |
| 3 | For some the Second World War was a time of extensive travel with tours of duty in , for example , North America or India presenting novel opportunities and providing the determination and individual confidence to repeat the experience in peace-time . |
| 4 | The second world war was a Fordist war . |
| 5 | Like many people on both sides of the conflict , de Gaulle recognized that the Second World War was a war which had to be waged with words and images as well as guns and bombs . |
| 6 | The second shadow study was a true repeat of the first , although some of the schedules were changed . |