(1) New measures to control firework abuse were promised as part of a blitz on anti-social behaviour.

(2) The 1948 Olympics were held in London to honor the survival of a city badly battered by the blitz .

(3) The drive to build a successful retail division will be supported by a major marketing blitz designed to increase the profile of the business.

(4) The wall was inspired by a dusky wartime picture of London bolstered against the blitz in the Second World War.

(5) Forty-two cars were clamped in a blitz on non-taxed vehicles.

(6) We should blitz the streets, targeting the problem areas when discos and takeaways close and schools.

(7) As they used to say in the blitz when shops had been bombed, it is now more open than usual.

(8) My dad told me about the first air-raids he experienced in London during the blitz .

(9) I was five years old when the war began and I remember the blitz , when we spent so much time in the air raid shelters.

(10) Back in the mid-Nineties, I played in a blitz tournament in Germany.

(11) The council has hired a specialist company to blitz problem areas using hot water and a high-pressure lance.

(12) A second blitz will be initiated by the authority in September.

(13) Police have launched a blitz on yobs who have been terrorising shoppers.

(14) Curiously, a blitz game I won gave me a lot of confidence and motivation, even though I won it purely by chance.

(15) Barracks, garrisons, bivouacs and encampments thus far spared came under a blitz of laser-guided bombs first used in the Gulf War.

(16) One can well forgive an author for relying on internet blitz chess to research openings grandmasters hardly ever play.

(17) While eight officers investigated the vehicles, officials from the Benefits Agency conducted checks as part of a blitz on benefit fraud.

(18) Alarmed by a spiralling number of muggings and thefts - particularly of mobile phones - hundreds of police in London are to blitz the streets.

(19) The excavation explored the 60th anniversary of the end of the second world war by uncovering a former Georgian terrace bombed in the blitz .

(20) The very fact that they had never endured a blitz or an invasion seemed to account for the obsessive fears of a nation always irrationally jumpy about its own security.