Example sentences of "1970s [Wh adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We built more hospitals and moved decisively away from the terrible stop-go years of the 1970s when capital budgets were slashed . |
| 2 | Moreover , the available data on personal savings show that there has been a rise rather than a fall during the 1970s when taxation rates were higher than at any time before . |
| 3 | In the 1970s when feminism first drew attention to sexist language it also argued that sexism was deeply rooted in our attitudes precisely because of the power of language to make sexist terms appear to describe permanent cultural values . |
| 4 | There was a big improvement on the late 1970s when science had barely a toe-hold in most schools and standards were generally poor . |
| 5 | Forgetting his appointment with a client , Stevens read on : ‘ It all began in the 1970s when oil prices quadrupled . |
| 6 | In the 1980s much was achieved in the economy and many essential and fundamental changes had to be made after the IMF was called in in the late 1970s when Labour was in power . |
| 7 | ‘ This was in the late 1970s when community programmes were developing rapidly ’ , Worswick recalled . |