Example sentences of "in the 1980s [pers pn] " 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 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 What is more , in Britain in the 1980s it was the other way round .
11 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 .
12 In the 1980s he became the industry 's pied piper , leading the way to the international conglomerate , crossing frontiers and combining different media .
13 In the 1980s he was living in comfortable retirement in a suburb of Buenos Aires , still convinced that his experiment worked .
14 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 .
15 In the 1980s I raised quite a bit of money for Sainsbury 's charities .
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