However, more recent studies on the subject fail to recognise the existence of apre-warinternational slump, and some of them utterly deny it.From theCambridge English Corpus
Overall membership, although it had fallen back some way from the wartime peak, was still more than double the highestpre-warlevels.From theCambridge English Corpus
Admittedly, the notion of the economist as counselling individuals was commonplace inpre-wareconomics.From theCambridge English Corpus
Women were excluded from inheritance as well as asset formation under thepre-warcivil code, and such gender discrimination has been perpetuated.From theCambridge English Corpus
Such was hardly the case inpre-warresumptions.From theCambridge English Corpus
The role of the international community is most instrumental in thepre-warperiod.From theCambridge English Corpus
Official policy bore some resemblance topre-warpractices of deportation.From theCambridge English Corpus
Thispre-warantipathy has been one of which historians, too, have been well aware.From theCambridge English Corpus
In addition, the weather was worse in the 1920s than in thepre-waryears (102).From theCambridge English Corpus
The rate rose in the 1930s and fell slightly when conditions improved in the immediatepre-waryears with increased industrial activity and employment.From theCambridge English Corpus
None of thesepre-waradult cohorts however experienced the enormous cultural transformations that spread throughout society in the second half of the 20th century.From theCambridge English Corpus
The war gave new voice topre-wardemands for the right to roam.From theCambridge English Corpus
Some senior officers did believe thatpre-wardoctrine required modification.From theCambridge English Corpus
Some administrators and governors clearly opposed any substantial revision of thepre-warcolonial regime.From theCambridge English Corpus
The process of postwar reconstruction involved many continuities withpre-warpatterns of economy and society.From theCambridge English Corpus
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