Example sentences of "1980s [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both 1991 and 1992 , net American purchases of foreign equities totalled around $10 billion ; in the early 1980s the figures were negligible . |
| 2 | But , as table 4. 1 shows , by the early 1980s the railways ' share of passenger traffic was well below 10 per cent in both countries , their share of freight traffic not that much higher . |
| 3 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
| 4 | In the 1980s the powers of the central state were considerably enhanced as the practice of discussion with affected parties and major interests was abandoned . |
| 5 | By the end of the 1980s the countries of the EEC collectively became the recipients of over half Britain 's exports . |
| 6 | In the 1980S the Basques have had much international publicity because of the passion and all too often the excesses of their campaign for separatism . |
| 7 | During the 1980s the stars of French thought fell from the heavens at a disconcerting rate . |
| 8 | If there is any silver lining to their dark cloud , it is the dubious one that the super-regional banks — for most of the 1980s the successes of American banking — also are on their way down ( or , like Bank of New England , out ) . |
| 9 | The only difference is that in the 1950s and the 1980s the Conservatives had more than 10 years to cure the ills of the economy while in the 1970s they had but four . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , since the early 1980s the movements of home-owners to the South has become increasingly difficult as the pressures for net in-migration from the rest of Britain and overseas has outstripped the rate of new house building and led to massive inflation in the price of houses and land with planning permission ( Champion , Green and Owen , 1987 ) . |
| 11 | Normally , increases or reductions in publishing output tend to be undramatic , but in the 1980s the numbers of new titles published annually have gone up very substantially indeed — increases not on the whole matched by additions to library bookfunds . |
| 12 | During the 1980s the fortunes of the dollar hovered ominously on the fringe of events . |
| 13 | In the early 1980s the contents of a vacuum cleaner bag were analysed and ‘ worryingly high levels of radioactivity in the house dust ’ were disclosed , Mr Sedley said . |
| 14 | During the 1980s the police found themselves embroiled in a number of controversies . |