Definitions

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  • initialism Belgian franc, Belgium's national currency before the introduction of the Euro as founding member of the monetary union
  • initialism bovine ephemeral fever
  • initialism military, UK British Expeditionary Force

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Examples

  • The BEF boasted only 10 divisions, half the Belgian contingent and a tenth of the French.

    Britain's War Machine by David Edgerton – review 2011

  • Much of the British army was spread about the globe on imperial duty, but the British Expeditionary Force, or BEF—a contingent of six regular British infantry divisions and another division of cavalry—quickly crossed the Channel and took its place between the beleaguered Belgian and French militaries.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • The Eco-Water bottle is made from a renewable resource, corn based PLA, that is also fully offset with EPA/BEF (Bonneville Environmental Foundation) wind power “Green Tags” – the bottle is fully biodegradable, recyclable, and fully carbon offset.

    Nextgen Vending to Distribute Earthpure Organics PLA Eco-Water Bottles 2008

  • The Eco-Water bottle is made from a renewable resource, corn based PLA, that is also fully offset with EPA/BEF (Bonneville Environmental Foundation) wind power “Green Tags” – the bottle is fully biodegradable, recyclable, and fully carbon offset.

    11 posts from July 2008 2008

  • Soon the BEF was joined by the British version of reserves, known as the Territorials.

    The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

  • Only when it was clear beyond a peradventure to even the dimmest of politico-military minds what Hitler was up to did we finally buckle down to creating a new BEF.

    Brown's Dereliction of A Duty Of Care 2007

  • Then its commanders had finally cracked the puzzle of how to defeat the machine gun the howitzer and the trench mortar and the BEF swept across Northern France and Belgium pushing the defeated German Army back towards the German border.

    No More Parades Today 2007

  • Then its commanders had finally cracked the puzzle of how to defeat the machine gun the howitzer and the trench mortar and the BEF swept across Northern France and Belgium pushing the defeated German Army back towards the German border.

    Archive 2007-07-29 2007

  • There were a number of authors from various countries present, such as Peter Straub, Samuel R. Delany, Andrej Sapkowski (polish fantasy writer), Elía Barceló (Spanish SF and now slipstream writer, one of the only women who write SF in Spain), Javier Negrete (Spanish fantasy writer), BEF (Mexican comics and SF writer), etc.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2007

  • The Kaiser was reputed, almost certainly erroneously, to have referred to the BEF of 1914 as a ‘contemptible little army’: in fact another German appreciation of it at the time was as ‘a perfect thing apart’.

    Brown's Dereliction of A Duty Of Care 2007

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