Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the 1980s " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prodded by the IMF and the drive for exports , combined with market forces , devaluations have been steep during the 1980s . |
| 2 | The face is the eight by ten glossy of the 1980s : what women wanted and men mostly resented — young , rich , glamorous , able to reach fine women in a single bound . |
| 3 | Clearly as a military phenomenon alone Ulster would continue to trouble the conscience of the British in the 1980s . |
| 4 | ‘ Good old Maggie , ’ said one young trader , padding around in those Argyll socks popular in the 1980s , as Mrs Thatcher appeared on the screens . |
| 5 | Earn outs were particularly popular in the 1980s especially where the vendor worked as an employee of the purchaser in a service-based business after completion as it is a means of providing an incentive to the vendor where the profits may depend heavily on the skills of the employees . |
| 6 | He suggests that the search for cost-effectiveness was particularly prevalent in the 1980s , with the establishment of the Audit Commission and the development of performance indicators in the NHS . |
| 7 | ‘ Welcome Buffet ’ was a marketing attempt to jazz up the merchandising in the old Mk1 buffet cars , patently unsuited to the 1980s . |
| 8 | ( 1981 , 1983 ) believed that the greenhouse warming should emerge from the noise level of natural climate variability by the end of the century , and expected it to become noticeable during the 1980s . |
| 9 | The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic , Vaclav Klaus , has said that the accelerating degradation of the country 's environment typical of the 1980s has been curbed . |
| 10 | The ‘ English craze ’ was a concomitant part of the ‘ chuguo chao ’ and was increasingly noticeable throughout the 1980s . |
| 11 | It seemed more credible in the 1980s with the emergence of the Alliance and Labour 's electoral collapse . |
| 12 | The legacy of Britain 's largest ever baby boom , dating from the early years of this century , manifested itself in the growth of the numbers of people of pensionable age in the 1960s and 1970s and the dramatic increase in the numbers of the very elderly in the 1980s . |
| 13 | Estimates of the net saving of enterprises given in Chapter 7 showed that the amount of net saving had become more and more negative in the 1980s . |
| 14 | The party has abandoned policies which made it unelectable in the 1980s . |
| 15 | I think that American trustees have proved themselves to be very powerful in the 1980s ; the British system is to leave power very significantly with the director and the curators . |
| 16 | The growth of venture capital funds in the UK has been substantial in the 1980s and is the result of a number of factors . |
| 17 | The prison population now stands at around 40,000 , which was that of England and Wales prior to the 1980s increase , against a total state population of rather more than half that of England and Wales . |
| 18 | Estimates suggest that if divorce rates prevailing in the 1980s continue , then just under 4 in 10 ( 37% ) marriages contracted in the mid 1980s are likely to end in divorce ( Haskey , 1989 ) . |
| 19 | A constructive dialogue of this kind would not have been possible in the 1980s , when such discussion tended to be ideological in character , rather than purely practical , as in this case . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | These were the people who deserted Labour in the 1980s and became Thatcher supporters , but were never Tories . |
| 23 | Yet Labour in the 1980s was still insufficiently united and popular to reverse the massive Conservative majority in terms of parliamentary seats . |
| 24 | German and Swiss lead managers were dominant between 1975 – 79 , but US houses became increasingly important during the 1980s , and by 1984 – 85 three US houses and the US/Swiss CSFB were included in the first five . |
| 25 | Organizational responses to this changing state became evident in the 1980s and it is in order to explicate these that the concept of postmodern organizations has been coined . |
| 26 | THE ‘ shop till I drop ’ syndrome evident in the 1980s has all but left the scene and , as increasing waves of redundancy hit all ranks — and officers — a more penny-pinching approach is in order . |
| 27 | Thus the more restrictive approach coincided with increased expressed need by black parents , and began to highlight issues about ‘ race ’ and child care , which became important in the 1980s . |
| 28 | While the large firms were busy in the 1980s compromising the quality of audit in the search for fatter fees from more lucrative work , ‘ the professional bodies to which these accountants belong — possibly under a certain amount of external pressure — produced accounting ‘ standards ’ which allowed the management of businesses to portray results which were remote from the truth' . |
| 29 | The Review Report recognises that the NHS has been chronically underfunded during the 1980s and that extra resources are needed for reform and modernisation . |
| 30 | He said that the deteriorating trend became apparent throughout the 1980s and coincided with the Government 's economic policies and their effect on the city . |