Example sentences of "[noun pl] following the second " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decades following the Second World War saw an historically unprecedented growth in retirement at a fixed age for all social classes . |
| 2 | IN the three decades following the Second World War , Scotland experienced an explosion of building and reconstruction on a scale unknown since the Industrial Revolution , driven by powerful political , social and architectural forces . |
| 3 | This project explores the range of public attitudes to those new technologies and technical changes which characterised the inter-war years and the two decades following the Second World War . |
| 4 | In the two decades following the Second World War , secondary schools were divided into grammar and secondary modern schools . |
| 5 | After a period of apparent — and perhaps misleading — political stability in the first twenty-five years following the Second World War , the 1970s seem to have marked some sort of turning-point for the British political system . |
| 6 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 7 | We must remember that there was no compulsory army conscription in Britain — compulsion in schools was bad enough , and standing armies had long been anathema to the ‘ freeborn Englishman ’ — and it was not until the years following the Second World War that compulsory national service would come into existence in peace-time Britain . |
| 8 | In the years following the Second World War the European colonial powers retained control over a large number of military and naval bases among their colonies . |
| 9 | Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War . |