Example sentences of "[prep] the 1960s [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | But communist and other militants were active , especially in the railway workshops , and during the 1960s they managed to organize industrial action , put up their own candidates for elections within the vertical union framework , and published a sporadic newssheet ( Martino de Jugo 1980 ; Bulnes 1967 ) . |
2 | During the 1960s she became notorious as a parody of the ‘ pearls and twinset ’ Tory councillor with views as rigid as her hairdos . |
3 | Its major development as a dual-purpose breed took place between 1920 and 1950 , but during the 1960s it was developed instead as an extreme beef type , benefiting from a degree of marbling in the meat bequeathed by its Beef Shorthorn ancestry . |
4 | During the 1960s I was a mechanical engineering consultant in what was then a very embryonic consultancy in Cambridge . |
5 | When I look at Elizabeth Frink 's terrifying bronze thugs of the 1960s I am always reminded of those men : members of the Fascist Secret Police . |
6 | Having been overshadowed since the war by Sartrean Marxism , in the crises of the 1960s it emerged as the more influential of the two . |
7 | In a series of books from the 1960s he searched for a theory of world society . |
8 | In the 1960s we started an art theft/loss notification system by which we sent to dealers , auction houses , museums , and police authorities notices of missing works of art . |
9 | President Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria said that Africa had failed to meet its challenges : " Ever since the majority of our countries became independent in the 1960s we have conducted our lives as if the world owes us a living . " |
10 | Three-quarters of MPs receive between 20 and 50 letters a day , whereas in the 1960s they would have had this many in a week . |
11 | In the 1960s they won the Junior Ice Dance Championships at Streatham . |
12 | In the 1960s she and husband Harry bought a Whitby cottage as a weekend retreat . |
13 | In the 1960s he gave up practice to pursue an academic career as an architectural historian . |
14 | In the 1960s he worked for several years in industry , including a period as Chief Architect at Camus , before being appointed Head of the Architectural Division at the National Building Agency . |
15 | In the 1960s he made Tiger Haven into a wildlife sanctuary that perfectly complemented the 83 square miles ( 215 sq km ) of Dudwa National Park , run by the Indian Forest Department , just across the river . |
16 | In the 1960s he served Warrington AC as coach , secretary and chairman . |
17 | In the 1960s it was extended in front using old weathered stone . |
18 | In the 1960s it was modified to make the House of Czech Children for the Pioneers . |
19 | In the 1960s it averaged almost 5% per annum , in the 1970s this fell to just under 3% . |
20 | In the 1960s it was totally re-built , and at that time no expense was spared . |
21 | Self-expression , of course , is a most important element in child development , but often in the 1960s it was espoused with pseudo-religious fervour . |
22 | In the 1960s it was also argued that government departments dealing with domestic questions should be decentralized so that civil servants who had a powerful voice in matters of economic planning could be kept in touch with regional and local interests . |
23 | When process investigations began to increase in the 1960s it was not realized exactly how difficult they would prove to be . |
24 | Overall supervision of any banking system is essential to protect the interests of depositors , and although there was some degree of depositor protection in the 1960s it was not until the secondary banking crisis of the 1970s that formal supervisory structures were developed and embodied in the Banking Acts of 1979 and 1987 . |
25 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |
26 | Later in the 1960s it would be great to be a student , but not then , not for Robins . |
27 | In the 1960s it became apparent that a revision of the features was needed , and the new set was introduced in Chomsky and Halle ( 1968 ) , pp.293–329 , rather pretentiously called ‘ The Universal Set of Phonetic Features ’ . |
28 | By the 1960s he was married and had two children , a son and a daughter . |
29 | Average life expectancy was only 43 years in 1880 ; it had risen to 62 years in 1939 , and by the 1960s it was over 70 . |
30 | However , the scattered radiation does carry to Earth signatures impressed on it by the atmosphere above the clouds , and by the 1960s it had been established that this part of the atmosphere alone contained about 1000 times as much CO 2 as the whole atmosphere of the Earth . |