Example sentences of "in the 1980s [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The second change has been in share prices themselves : in the 1980s they soared .
2 But in the 1980s we are in a new recession ; morale is getting low , and soon the government will seriously turn to the arts as a ‘ booster ’ .
3 In the 1980s we are still sufficiently close to the Occupation to make it difficult to assess some of the longer term significances of its reforms .
4 In the 1980s we have seen greater emphasis than heretofore on the voice of the consumer .
5 In the 1980s we did cut taxation and raise public expenditure .
6 This became a challenge for managers in the 1980s who had been recruited in the more consensual 1960s and 1970s , and it will remain a feature of the next decade .
7 In the 1980s there has been an important adjustment in both exchange rates and agricultural pricing policy largely as a result of pressure from international aid agencies .
8 But the many miles of treeless river inhibits recolonization by otters , and even in the 1980s there have been cases of water authority workmen felling known otter holts .
9 In the 1980s there has been increased central control ( Davies , 1987 ) .
10 In the 1980s there has been another resurgence of activity following the realisation that the country is simultaneously suffering from a high rate of unemployment and a shortage of workers with specific skills .
11 In the 1980s there are people from a number of different backgrounds .
12 In the 1980s there were not only changes in product demand and in imports and exports , but large-scale changes in investment and in the occupational structure .
13 Specialism never entirely disappeared , but in the 1980s there was a quite definite return to specialisation , especially in mental health and child care .
14 In the 1980s there have been attempts to develop random sampling procedures as quick and as cheap as quotas .
15 In the 1980s there has been a general move in museum education circles towards active learning experiences on site .
16 In the 1980s it has been acknowledged that the importance of formal ( tripartite ) arrangements at ‘ peak ’ levels has been reduced — indeed it is now often suggested that Britain was always less ‘ corporatist ’ in these terms than countries such as the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Sweden .
17 But in the political language of the right in the 1980s it is outside in the sense of being cast as alien , normally via the stigmata of race or socialism , the locus of criminal delinquency , the site of disorder .
18 In the 1980s it became apparent that an increasing number of the senior jobs were handled by executive search and this increased during the decade until the late 1980s , when 80% of all senior jobs in the UK sourced outside the company were covered by the search firms .
19 From this examination of some of the many patterns of family life which exist in Britain in the 1980s it can be seen that traditional views of the family are unsupported by research findings .
20 What is more , in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round .
21 To comprehend some of the problems faced by British government in the 1980s it is necessary to know not only the structure and relationships of the political system but also the popular expectations and the burden of responsibilities borne by government .
22 In the 1980s he became the industry 's pied piper , leading the way to the international conglomerate , crossing frontiers and combining different media .
23 In the 1980s he was living in comfortable retirement in a suburb of Buenos Aires , still convinced that his experiment worked .
24 In the 1980s he was head of the securities firm 's staff union for two years , which in Japan is traditionally a position held by employees considered to be destined for top positions in the company .
25 In the 1980s I raised quite a bit of money for Sainsbury 's charities .
26 In the 1980s our work concentrated on multiple congenital abnormalities .
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