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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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period
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Beer consumption fell as compared to the pre-war period , and did not pick up again to 1945 levels until 1968.
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However, despite this frontal Puritan assault, the popular religious culture of the pre-war period survived.
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In the immediate pre-war period , the Bolsheviks' Pravda attracted much more support than the Menshevik organ, Luch.
years
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But the sharp decline in peasant disturbances in the pre-war years pointed to peaceful development.
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During the immediate pre-war years the characteristic features of imperialism rapidly intensified.
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In the pre-war years , his lack of charisma and poor judgement of men contributed significantly to tension within the establishment.
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Nevertheless, it was not until the last pre-war years that recruitment from the intelligentsia declined.
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Nor do they deny the growing popularity of Bolshevik rather than Menshevik slogans and strategy in the pre-war years .
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Peter performed this function with maximum cheerfulness for the last two pre-war years and the first two afterwards.
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The Pilling Circular Tour of pre-war years has recently been revived using vintage trams and buses. 3.
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There were many such tours in the pre-war years , often taken with Barfield, sometimes with Warnie, sometimes both.
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Bert Hall, a true Texan soldier-of-fortune, already had a colourful pre-war flying career behind him.
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But does it exist anywhere outside coiled up rolls of decaying celluloid of pre-war films?
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But that is looking back to pre-war pre-Blitz days.
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Different sections of the pre-war work-force suffered from one or the other.
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The last of the pre-war Kindertransporte left Berlin on 31 August.
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There was some pre-war and wartime development but the real growth began in the 1940s.
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They feared a post-war depression but wanted a return to pre-war policies.
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Tommy did all the pre-war Chapel outings.