Example sentences of "in the late 1980s [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the late 1980s we were looking for somewhere to produce a whole stream of new products , ’ said managing director of Glaxo Developments Alan Catterall . |
| 2 | In the late 1980s we can review the situation in my two localities in terms of being ‘ after the planners ’ , because the Hailsham programme consisted of planned accommodation with social change in the name of modernization and social progress . |
| 3 | One answer is that in the late 1980s we have been witnessing structural changes , whereas in more normal times we see only adjustments and changes within a set structure . |
| 4 | In the late 1980s we now see town planning and architecture — shapers of the housing environment — charged with professional disrepute : once the great hope of being effective providers of an environment of social purpose , the two professions have been derided for giving the public the wrong thing , and in the wrong manner . |
| 5 | While in the late 1980s it was comparatively easy to secure a highly geared mortgage , these are far less easily available today . |
| 6 | Martin Scannell of De Pinna , Scorers & John Venn ( 071–409 3188 ) said that in the late 1980s it was fashionable for UK citizens to buy property in France . |
| 7 | In the late 1980s it has seemed that social workers and their agencies have been caught in a political crossfire between being criticized on the one hand for allowing some children to suffer unnecessarily , sometimes to the point of death , at the hands of their parent(s) or guardian(s) , and on the other hand of intervening unwarrantably into other families and removing their children inappropriately . |
| 8 | In the late 1980s it became clear from the work of several labs that drugs which inhibited this enzyme could block LTP . |
| 9 | But in the late 1980s it is the upscale shopping mall — relentlessly post-modern in design , surrounded by a sea of imported cars — which symbolizes our economy . |
| 10 | In the late 1980s it was felt that low profitability , partly arising from discounting of bonds by syndicate members in the grey market , necessitated a reform of primary market procedures . |
| 11 | Subsequently , the victor fell so in love with Russia that in the late 1980s he sought to buy a flat in Moscow . |
| 12 | Matthei had been in post since 1978 , but in the late 1980s he had been the first among the military leadership to recognize the strength of the democratic opposition and the inevitability of political change and , as a result , began to distance himself from the military hardliners . |