Example sentences of "[adv] before the first world [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1911 , shortly before the First World War , it had reached 36·1 millions . |
| 2 | William Blogg , whose brewery disappeared just before the First World War , is one of a whole host of East End brewers whose names live on , even if they no longer brew . |
| 3 | The first lot of American research institutes , just before the first world war , was more politically innocent . |
| 4 | The atmosphere just before the First World War was free , live and very young . |
| 5 | Perhaps it is only in retrospect that the artists ' balls , the fancy-dress dances , the 14th of July celebration seemed more brilliant than usual that summer just before the First World War . |
| 6 | At Kigoma in Tanganyika a multi-storeyed station was constructed just before the First World War . |
| 7 | Until just before the First World War , a strong decoction containing sarsaparilla , calomel , cinnabar , anise , fennel , senna , and liquorice was warmed up and taken in quart doses daily for ten days . |
| 8 | Pygmalion and Heartbreak House are the work of a writer at the peak of his powers : the former written just before the first world war , the latter just after it . |
| 9 | The famous ‘ Golly ’ originated just before the first world war from an American design . |
| 10 | Just before the First World War over 90 per cent of households rented privately . |
| 11 | The Brook flows under the shops opposite , built just before the First World War . |
| 12 | Set in Austria just before the First World War the play revolves around Josephea , proprietress of the inn ; Leopold , the head waiter ; several well-to-do local businessmen and the Emperor of Austria who comes to stay at the Inn at the start of the shooting season . |
| 13 | Burning the Bush was a ceremony on Herefordshire farms which died out just before the First World War — the ‘ bush ’ being a ball of hawthorn twigs and mistletoe , ceremonially burned on a wheatfield early on New Year 's morning , and replaced by a new one which hung in the farmhouse until next New Year . |
| 14 | Then you got to er the picture house er that happened just before the First World War that was put up as far as I can remember , I know I used to go there and see erm the Broken Coin which was a serial picture and it was you know er where somebody was up to their neck in water one week and it would say that the continuation of this picture would be shown in this theatre one week from today and you . |
| 15 | Government support of this kind in fact increased substantially during the generation or more before the First World War , when the foreign ministry trebled its spending on cultural relations in general . |
| 16 | It was ceasing to be overwhelmingly political in a narrow sense and acquiring new dimensions which , even well before the First World War , were clearly destined soon to become very important . |
| 17 | The story takes place at an unspecified date but clearly in the years immediately before the First World War . |
| 18 | The period immediately before the First World War was dominated by a series of reforms adopted by the Liberal government after 1906 . |
| 19 | The period immediately before the First World War saw rapid economic and social change in Ireland . |
| 20 | I , I shall be seeing the you know in a few weeks time the daughter she 's a , she 's er Rene that was erm Eddie , who were very big pals of mine and we go to the anniversary lunch together so we 're all over eighty but erm you could n't the bread shop , was another confectioner 's shop , and then turning round the corner you come to another shop , up two steps , which was and that was another type of confectionery and shop , then you get as far as the corn and seed people er they used to have a shop in Street as well , and then before the First World War there was the butchers and they sold foreign meat . |