Example sentences of "the 1987 [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table E8.1 comes from the 1987 Digest of UK Energy Statistics ( Table 63 ) . |
| 2 | Mr Keating 's main mistake was to loosen monetary policy by too much after the 1987 stockmarket crash , fuelling an unsustainable boom . |
| 3 | It is even possible that Mr Soros is as wrong about gold as he was about the 1987 stockmarket crash , when he lost something like $100m . |
| 4 | Mr McKay had a majority of 14,191 at the 1987 election . |
| 5 | I suppose he had forgotten that when Bill Jordan , president of the engineering workers ' union , asked him during the 1987 election campaign to announce then that he would hold a referendum on unilateralism after the election , he declined and replied that people would come round to it once they understood . |
| 6 | Nigel Lawson may have won his prime minister the 1987 election , but it has become ever more clear that he let his boom run on too long and too strong thereafter . |
| 7 | Old news was certainly presented as new scandal in the 1987 election campaign . |
| 8 | The 1987 election marked the high noon of the government of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 9 | After the 1987 election , the battle went on with new intensity . |
| 10 | But the main reason why the tide of Thatcherism seemed to ebb after the 1987 election was that its main claim to popular support , the apparent revival of the economy and the stimulus to productive growth , was beginning to lose credibility . |
| 11 | After the 1987 election there was speculation that Britain had moved into an era of one-party politics or a predominantly one-party system . |
| 12 | In 1983 she spoke of the general election providing a ‘ choice ’ between two ways of life ; before the 1987 election she spoke of the election as the opportunity to ‘ kill off ’ left-wing socialism . |
| 13 | This compares with just over £15m raised for the 1987 election . |
| 14 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
| 15 | After the 1987 election , the parliamentary party had only eleven MPs who had served in the Guards , and a further eight who had been cavalry officers . |
| 16 | The last representative of the four-hundred-year-old Cecil family political tradition left at the 1987 election . |
| 17 | After the 1987 election , scarcely more than a tenth ( eleven per cent ) of MPs had been at the school . |
| 18 | I had a difficult time at one airport on a visit during the 1987 election . |
| 19 | Although it looked completely different , it was this truck that gave me the concept for ‘ MiniMag ’ , the 27ft ( 8m ) articulated truck that we used for Mrs Thatcher 's open-air meetings in the 1987 election . |
| 20 | During the 1987 election we set a carefully timed an organised arrival at a particular airport . |
| 21 | Another time in the 1987 election we were driving along a dual carriageway in Norfolk heading for an airport to meet Mrs Thatcher 's plane and join up with the Battlebus . |
| 22 | Figures from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys show that the number of voters is significantly less than at the time of the 1987 election , even though the adult population has grown . |
| 23 | They said Left-wing Labour MPs , including many who opposed the abandonment of unilateralism after the 1987 election , would cause havoc for a Labour government . |
| 24 | It is a picturesque favourite of visiting party leaders : those present remember fondly Sir David Steel 's manful attempt to smile over a plateful of cockles during the 1987 election . |
| 25 | The Daily Telegraph computer program compares each poll 's current findings with the 1987 election results , and calculates how many seats each party would win on the basis of a uniform national swing applied equally to every constituency ( leaving out those in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 26 | In the 1987 election , they took 53.6 per cent of the vote . |
| 27 | It is down on the 22.6 per cent the Liberal-SDP Alliance secured in the 1987 election . |
| 28 | To have lost the 1987 election could be forgiven ; it provided the final catalyst for Labour 's long-drawn out policy reform . |
| 29 | Mr Major had envisaged Mr Baker having an ‘ Indian summer ’ in government , as Mr Peter Walker did after the 1987 election , running the Principality . |
| 30 | Moreover , few would dispute that this apparent decline is a reality : the first words of the Prime Minister herself , after the result of the 1987 election was known , were an acknowledgement of the challenge posed to Government by the ‘ inner cities ’ . |