food rationing in the immediate post-war yearspost-warˌpost-ˈwar adjective [only before noun] 
post-war Britainpost-war period/years/era food rationing in the immediate post-war years—post-war adverb
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- However, 1985 signalled the end of the post-war trend of decline in working hours in Britain.
- None the less, the picture for output in manufacturing does indicate a shift after 1973, away from the trend of steady post-war growth.
- Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period, as will be seen in the next chapter.
- Shore challenged the regional and new towns policies of the post-war period which had encouraged economic and population dispersal.
- The post-war period in Britain has been characterized by the development of geriatric medicine as a legitimate medical specialism.
- The experience of these writers was seen as emblematic of the increased social mobility that characterized post-war Britain.
- This pattern of mortality has remained approximately constant over the post-war period.
- Until the 1970s Coventry was one of the fastest growing cities in post-war Britain.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY food rationing in the immediate post-war yearsCOLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
food rationing in the immediate post-war years· The foundations of the post-war boom in Britain were laid in those crises at the start of the 1930s.· During the long post-war boom, argues Aglietta, such flexibility had not been an important regulating mechanism.· In its heyday, in the post-war boom, Pringle's employed four thousand men.· Further, the post-war boom at the height of Fordism led to an increased demand for labour.· A brief post-war boom brought inflation, which was followed by a sharp recession and unemployment.· This would all have been uninhabited malarial marshland until the post-war boom made it worth draining.
· In the current period industrial relations is conducted in a very different climate from that of much of the post-war era.· On paper, the economy is one of the healthiest in the post-war era.· These figures, moreover, have been borne out for most of the post-war era.· About four years ago, Mr Rafsanjani shifted to the right, voicing the reformist policies that the post-war era craved.· In spite of a change in political outlook, the ravaging of national book treasures did not stop in the post-war era.· Many outer estates are nothing less than the architect-designed, system-built slums of our post-war era.
· To post-war generations, the deli has become a way to stay connected, through the taste buds with their roots.
· The ultimate objectives of this strategy were of course no different from those of previous post-war governments.
· This is only the second time in post-war history that war booty art treasures have been put on view.· Archie was a former cinema manager who became the most successful chairman in the post-war history of Darlington Football Club.
· Nor was this resistance to diminish in the post-war period, as will be seen in the next chapter.· They lost in the general elections by the two biggest margins in the post-war period.· The post-war period in Britain has been characterized by the development of geriatric medicine as a legitimate medical specialism.· Experience was quickly to show that these conditions were not forthcoming; neither have they been realized throughout the post-war period.· In the post-war period some democratic elitists detected a major flaw in this notion of bureaucratic rationality.· Consider in this light the succession of governments in the post-war period up to 1979.· The post-war period until the late 1970s witnessed governments playing a positive role in stimulating demand through reflation of the economy.· These various basic principles which underpinned the planning machine have survived throughout the post-war period.
· Third, New Towns constituted experiments in social engineering - well in tune with the psychological requirements for post-war reconstruction.· In 1917-18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction, where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb.· The committee has been represented on and has played its part in post-war reconstruction schemes having this object in view.· Such ideals were grandiose both in their conception and in relation to the practicalities of post-war reconstruction.· An equally long lasting, but more profound government stance came from the perceived need to prepare plans for post-war reconstruction.· But plans for post-war reconstruction were to bear only limited fruit.
· Bonn's power in the post-war world had, after all, been limited by the division from the East.· The principle of multilateralism has been pursued with varying degrees of success and sincerity in the post-war world.· Congress would brook no potential economic rivals in the post-war world.· It was given at a time of full employment and full employment persisted into the post-war world.· In the post-war world, our power has been reduced.· And to be rich, in the post-war world, could only mean dollar-rich.· In the post-war world the fireside has been split apart, indeed subsumed to the kitchen.
· This never materialised, and the pits were extended in post-war years to facilitate routine inspections.· From the post-war years until the mid-1960s it had experienced steady decline.· This judicial readiness to sanction rescue was revised in post-war years in the light of Bowlby's work on maternal deprivation.· This was especially so in the early post-war years.· At the centre of this emergent mode of rationality was the negotiation of long-term employment tenure in the immediate post-war years.· The post-war years were full of women longing for a full skirt and unable to make it.· What small political influence it possessed was confined to the immediate post-war years of social tension, inflation and unemployment.· She had longed to be a bad girl in those post-war years, those austerity years.
WORD FAMILYnounwarwarfarewarrioradjectivepre-war ≠ post-warwarring
happening or existing after a war, especially the Second World War OPP pre-war: post-war Britainpost-war period/years/era food rationing in the immediate post-war years—post-war adverb