Example sentences of "in the 1980s " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in the 1980s an American handbook took a more comprehensive view : |
| 2 | The unemployed and the under-thirties have lately tended to support Sinn Fein since its adoption of an electoral strategy in the 1980s ( Bew and Patterson 1985 ; O'Dowd , Rolston , and Tomlinson 1980 ; Moxon-Browne and Irvine 1989 ) . |
| 3 | Some enlightened companies , like Joshua Tetley in the 1980s , even started their own special designation schemes for the best historic pubs in their tied estates . |
| 4 | The needs of pub management in the 1980s have been hard to contain in pubs originally segregated into saloon and public bars , if not into further distinct spaces . |
| 5 | For some reason this inspires the barman to tell me there were a lot of good boxers in the 1980s because they were hungry . |
| 6 | The principal change in the 1980s has come with the creation of the sectors , in that the PTEs primarily talk business to the sectors these days , the region then delivering the agreed product . |
| 7 | There were four major East Coast developments in the 1980s : the significant increase in HST productivity so that sets could be more extensively deployed to provide service to Inverness , Glasgow Queen Street , Hull and Cleethorpes ; electrification of the route from Hitchin to Leeds with only minor interference to train services ; introduction of a new track-maintenance strategy and transfer of overnight Anglo-Scottish sleeping-car services to the West Coast main line . |
| 8 | The fastest time between King 's Cross and Edinburgh by HST in the 1980s was 4 hours and 23 minutes , with one stop at Newcastle ; this will be cut to 4 hours from May 1991 . |
| 9 | The most telling indicator of Railfreight 's success in the 1980s was the unprecedented turnround in its financial performance . |
| 10 | This phenomenon occurred twice in the 1980s : Dee Marsh-Mickle Trafford was closed in 1984 but reopened mainly for steel coil traffic in 1986 , and Annbank-Mauchline closed in 1985 but came back into use as a Railfreight Coal asset in 1988 . |
| 11 | Railfreight 's success in the 1980s was clouded by one area of uncertainty . |
| 12 | The number of rail–served collieries in South Wales declined dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 13 | The upsurge in traffic in the 1980s has alas meant that passengers have often had to stand in the centre aisles , in the lobbies , and around the door vestibules . |
| 14 | SUCH has been the scale of reopenings ( not to mention survivals ) of lines and stations in the 1980s that to put matters in perspective it is necessary to go back a bit in history . |
| 15 | In total one can only marvel at the numerous stations opened in the 1980s and it is pleasing to note that many more are in the pipeline . |
| 16 | Commuting became fashionable again in the 1980s , and BR responded with new suburban electrification schemes , over a thousand new electric passenger vehicles and ( when replacement finance was not available ) 1950s units given the asbestos-removal treatment and a mid-life facelift . |
| 17 | The Dobermann really came into its own as a domestic dog in the 1980s and , subsequently , far too many were bred . |
| 18 | In the 1980s , following on government cuts in finance , British universities have been engaged in a desperate scramble for overseas students and the more-or-less economic fees they are required to pay . |
| 19 | The party has abandoned policies which made it unelectable in the 1980s . |
| 20 | HIGH-RANKING women police officers , even in the 1980s , are fairly unusual anywhere in the UK . |
| 21 | Lord Callaghan , the last Labour prime minister , said : ‘ What happened in the 1980s was a temporary aberration from what has always been the real position of the Labour Party , and Neil Kinnock has recaptured the traditional position . ’ |
| 22 | Sheila Cunningham , of Norfolk North , said the present system was unfair and perpetuated the elective dictatorship which had developed in the 1980s . |
| 23 | Then , in the 1980s , overseas financial groups have had large British insurance companies within their sights , which has led to aggressively fought takeovers . |
| 24 | ‘ Young people 's bodies are still a saleable commodity in Britain in the 1980s , ’ the study concludes . |
| 25 | But it flares to acrid life again with the explosion of a second property boom in the 1980s . |
| 26 | A study of crime in London 's inner cities in the 1980s painted a gloomy picture of how ‘ ordinary policing ’ , as it was termed , was fast diminishing , with the police becoming alienated and marginalized from the community and increasingly reliant on high-profile strategies of crime control which destroyed the principle of consensus policing ( Kinsey et al . |
| 27 | Some marketing commentators also take the view that the objective of successful marketing has changed in the 1980s . |
| 28 | Clearly as a military phenomenon alone Ulster would continue to trouble the conscience of the British in the 1980s . |
| 29 | But the new generation of novelists and playwrights in the 1980s were somewhat more inward-looking in finding their cultural stimulation than , say , their predecessors in the fifties and sixties . |
| 30 | The unions , so dormant in the 1980s , were now more positive in their approach , through leaders such as Gavin Laird ( Engineers ) , Tom Sawyer ( NUPE ) , and John Edmunds ( Municipal Workers ) , representatives of the older craft industries and some of the newer high-tech , white-collar workers , too . |