Example sentences of "[prep] the 1980s as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of the Leicestershire coalfield declined during the 1980s as seams gradually became worked out , but new opencast sites continued to provide useful revenue for BR . |
| 2 | This new ‘ philosophy ’ , enshrined in the 1980 Act , was to lead to increasing central-local tensions during the 1980s as central government sought to impose , and reinforce where necessary , controls over the expenditure of individual local authorities . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Love him or loathe him , Adrian Mole and his secret diary were as much a part of the 1980s as portable phones and rich estate agents . |
| 5 | Later chapters will try to disentangle in greater detail the effect of New Right ideas on actual Conservative health policies throughout the 1980s as one strand ( albeit an important one ) of influences in the skein of policy development . |
| 6 | The MTFS has remained a controversial strategy throughout the 1980s as it has sought to establish simple rules for the links between monetary aggregates ( such as M3 and M0 ) , interest rates and inflation . |
| 7 | The corporate-governance issue emerged strongly in the 1980s as investors found that bosses talked of putting shareholders first while pursuing their own dreams at shareholders ' expense . |
| 8 | It widened still further in the 1980s as sales of the Mirror fell . |
| 9 | The case of Mary Ann Titford , née Parkes , is fairly typical in this respect : her grandchildren , still alive in the 1980s as this story is being written , remember her well , though she had been born as long ago as 1849 . |
| 10 | Telecommunications policy became more controversial in the 1980S as it came to feature on the political agendas of each nation and of Europe , or Europes . |
| 11 | Journalists and producers who fell out of favour were ‘ put on the shelf ’ ( ‘ mis au placard ’ ) — thereby accentuating what was already part of broadcasting mythology : in the 1980S as in the 1940S , key managerial , editorial and programming appointments and dismissals — who 's ‘ in ’ and who 's ‘ out ’ — were attributed as much ( or more ) to political as to professional factors . |
| 12 | The regulationist approach , therefore , would view the major changes in the UK economy in the 1980s as resulting from a breakdown of the old structures of international and national regulation . |
| 13 | Actual practice changed fast in the 1980s as central government 's desire to cut public spending overwhelmed all other considerations . |
| 14 | The following comment could be just as easily applied to the 1980s as to earlier this century . |