Example sentences of "1980s and the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fear of unemployment is probably doing more than anything to hold back consumers from increasing their spending , and that is compounded by their desire to pay down debt after getting their fingers burned in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 2 | These flats were demolished in the early 1980s and the history of the use of the site is an important part of this study 's concern with land . |
| 3 | The steady degradation of the Romanian standard of living to meet the burden of rapid debt repayment in the 1980s and the decision to remodel rural life according to a model abandoned by then even in the Soviet Union and China may have been primarily Nicolae Ceauşescu 's work . |
| 4 | The great circulation successes were the Daily Mirror and Daily Express into the 1960s ; the Sun from 1970 onwards , when it bit hard into the Mirror 's market ; The Daily Telegraph until the 1980s and the Guardian , in a quiet way , after it had settled in London . |
| 5 | Ralph Nader 's Study Group on Air Pollution estimated that the implementation phase would not be completed until well into the 1980s and the Air Quality Act was criticized for providing the Department of Health , Education and Welfare with only very limited powers to press the states into faster action . |
| 6 | BR 's fares have been raised by 1.5 per cent above inflation during much of the 1980s and the Government 's proposals imply increases to four points over inflation in the 1990s . |
| 7 | The only drawback to both the studies , by Fothergill and Gudgin , and Frost and Spence , is that they predate the economic recession of the 1980s and the reduction in public sector employment pursued by the Conservative government since 1979 . |
| 8 | It was not surprising that the amount spent on exploration sank from $760 million in the still relatively fat year of 1979 to between $120 and $150 million at the end of the 1980s and the size of known reserves remained static over a period of at least four years . |
| 9 | The crisis compounded the country 's serious economic difficulties caused by the overheating of the economy in the late 1980s and the collapse of Soviet export markets . |
| 10 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |
| 11 | The first part sets the scene by examining the extent of poverty among lone mothers in the 1980s and the impact this poverty has on the lives of lone mothers and their children . |
| 12 | The aim of the disks will be to present as complete a statistical portrayal as possible of Britain during the 1980s and the Archive has supplied national level data mainly from the large-scale Government generated reference surveys for one of the video-disks . |