Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [prep] the 1980s " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave £50 million , which of course made an immense difference to life at the National Gallery , not only in the 1980s but for the future . |
| 2 | While TNC investment in the developing countries levelled off somewhat in the 1980s ( UNCTC , 1988 ) , the growth of export-oriented employment , mainly due to increased TNC activity in export processing ( often referred to as ‘ production sharing ’ in the business press ) continued to be rapid . |
| 3 | In the end , the Census Bureau expects to find that the total population is about 250m , is getting older , is still moving from the north-east and midwest to the south and west , and that metropolitan areas grew more rapidly in the 1980s than in the 1970s . |
| 4 | It widened still further in the 1980s as sales of the Mirror fell . |
| 5 | There are two main , and related , reasons why lone mothers have become so much worse off financially during the 1980s . |
| 6 | Its dominance over other media built up steadily through the 1980s ( Table 6.13 ) . |
| 7 | The overseas weighting fell from the end of the First World War until the early 1950s , since when it has grown steadily , increasing sharply again in the 1980s after the removal of exchange control in 1979 . |
| 8 | Those dependent on state benefits have fared particularly badly during the 1980s , eligibility conditions having been made more stringent and the rates of many of the benefits having been cut . |
| 9 | The unit operated very effectively during the 1980s on the Namibia/Angola border against infiltrating bands of SWAPO guerrillas who were attempting to destabilise the country by ambush and assassination . |
| 10 | DET expenditure on black education has certainly risen very significantly during the 1980s , with per capita expenditure for all educational levels rising from 176 rand per pupil ( 1988 rand ) in 1980/81 to 595 rand in 1987/88 , though much of this increase had been taken up by the rising bill for teachers ' salaries . |