Example sentences of "[prep] the 1970s as " in BNC.

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1 R. Rhodes , ( 1984 , p. 355 ) , observing the increased assertiveness of the Thatcher government , has characterized the changes in relationship between central and local government during the 1970s as shifting from bargaining through incorporation to direction and centralization in the 1980s .
2 This remained only a vague idea until he read the same Soviet paper from the 1970s as Chatterjee had seen and which dealt with the abundance of helium-3 and helium-4 in minerals .
3 The failure of the Royal Commission 's own research to support their advocacy of large-scale units of local government led to scepticism in the 1970s as opinion swung away from a belief in bigness as a correlate of efficiency and progress .
4 Further innovation began in the 1970s as banks came to regard their foreign branches as profit centres in their own right , not just as overseas service counters for domestic clients with overseas interests .
5 Though the production function approach was subjected to a great deal of criticism from the start , this criticism increased very substantially in the 1970s as the economies of the world began to stagnate .
6 It also seems that the pressures have increased since the 1970s as manufacturing firms especially have reduced their labour force and no worker wants to be nominated for early retirement or transfer .
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