Example sentences of "[verb] during the 1980s " in BNC.
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| 1 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 2 | From the Second World War the percentage of local government income derived from grants increased steadily and although the proportion began to fall during the 1980s ( as a result of public expenditure restraint policies ) it is still sufficient to provide central government with a powerful instrument for influencing local authorities . |
| 3 | The difference in survival between patients diagnosed during the 1970s and 1980s was due to the greater number of patients with colonic disease diagnosed during the 1980s . |
| 4 | They have much less to do with the demands of competitiveness than with the perversities of an industrial relations law whose imbalance was over-corrected during the 1980s . |
| 5 | I hope you will allow me to remain somewhat sceptical about these vague reassurances which remind me of those that were regular given during the 1980s ( prior to publication of the Environment White Paper ) although it was evident that no rigorous assessment was ever made of the environmental effects of development . |
| 6 | After shrinking during the 1980s , the economy grew by 10% in 1991 and by more than 7% last year . |
| 7 | Consequently , Wirral , along with a handful of other British urban communities , has during the 1980s been hit by heroin about as heavily as a community can . |
| 8 | Mr Dorrell , visiting Darlington Memorial Hospital , claimed during the 1980s the number of patients treated in the town rose by an average of 5pc a year . |
| 9 | In a symptom-free person diagnosis of HIV-1 infection depends on factors such as risk recognition , willingness to have an HIV-1 test , and test accessibility , all of which changed during the 1980s . |
| 10 | Some worthwhile traffic gains were made during the 1980s , such as timber from the Scottish Highlands and drinks from several locations in the South West . |
| 11 | With hindsight , he says , training offices wildly over-recruited during the 1980s . |
| 12 | This study analyses the accounting policy choices made for selected industries that have been privatised during the 1980s , both before and after privatisation . |
| 13 | In October 1990 the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific ( ESCAP ) warned that the rate of destruction of Asia 's rainforests had reached 50,000 sq km annually as against 20,000 sq km as reckoned during the 1980s . |
| 14 | According to the Council for the Protection of Rural England , some 120,000 miles of hedgerow have been lost since 1947 and this accelerated during the 1980s and there is no evidence that this rate of loss has slowed down ( in spite of the continued popularity of fox hunting ) . |
| 15 | The North has been hit by changes in the British economy ; changes which were already apparent before the Conservatives took office , but which accelerated during the 1980s . |
| 16 | What happened during the 1980s was that we measured more things , more systematically , and published the measurements to an extent not seen before . |
| 17 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 18 | Congress was stained during the 1980s by the Bofors case , a scandal which suggested the party had received millions of dollars from the Swedish gun manufacturer as part of a $1.2 billion deal for howitzers . |
| 19 | Most of the new terminals commissioned during the 1980s were funded partly by the government by means of a ‘ Section 8 Grant ’ , giving up to 60 per cent of the total cost . |
| 20 | Large real depreciations were needed during the 1980s to bring exchange rates back to equilibrium . |
| 21 | Cutting across these are several other divisions , and below we look at four of the more important , each of which became more pronounced during the 1980s : geographical divisions , labour market divisions , racial divisions and gender divisions . |
| 22 | Moreover , endoscopic and percutaneous cholangiography have become during the 1980s widely used methods to diagnose bile duct abnormality , including common duct stones . |
| 23 | The general dimensions of the issue had not changed much from those noted during the 1980s . |
| 24 | In the Netherlands , known during the 1980s for the strength of its peace movement , there was widespread support for the war . |
| 25 | We will also see cases where we do not categorize whole organizations in this way but we separate out those functions within the organization which could be classed as Type A and those which could be classed as Type B. This can also lead to parts of public sector organizations being classified as ‘ profit-oriented ’ , a trend that has been particularly marked during the 1980s with the increasing use of Direct Service Organizations in local authorities , Hospital Trusts in the health service and Executive Agencies in the civil service . |
| 26 | Close examination of the QCs appointed during the 1980s , from whom most of the judiciary will be drawn in the nineties and beyond , reveals that the old pattern has scarcely changed . |
| 27 | Answering the question : ‘ Has the North-South divide widened during the 1980s ? ’ is fraught with difficulties and , to some extent , the answer depends on which economic indicators are viewed and the way in which the calculations are interpreted . |
| 28 | New directions in National Health Service budgeting have emerged during the 1980s . |
| 29 | Ethridge writes that although expenditure on education increased during the 1980s , ‘ the increase in enrolment has been such that the average per-pupil expenditure actually decreased ’ . |
| 30 | Successive governments have stressed that imprisonment should be used only as a last resort yet , as we have seen , its use increased during the 1980s . |