Example sentences of "decades before the first world [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know more about movie-going in Chicago than about any other city and this is appropriate for it was in so many ways the symbolic city of those last decades before the First World War . |
| 2 | In the three decades before the First World War , the great house appears more and more often as a picture , with a dream-like , self-sufficient existence of its own . |
| 3 | In his contribution to the present volume , the distinguished Soviet historian , Leonid Goryushkin , has added fresh insights to the body of literature on nineteenth and early twentieth-century peasant migration patterns by demonstrating how these reflected the fluctuating social , economic and political policies of the late tsarist regime and by analysing their impact on the agrarian economy and village industries of Siberia in the decades before the first World War . |
| 4 | Daunton asks the searching question : ‘ did the private market as it existed in the decades before the First World War fall , or was it pushed ? ’ |
| 5 | Italy , Russia , and Austria lagged further behind , their major period of industrialization being concentrated in the last three decades before the First World War . |