Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the 1980s " in BNC.
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| 1 | They provide about 80 per cent of total lending for private house purchase , though this figure has fluctuated during the 1980s as banks entered , retreated from and then re-entered the mortgage market . |
| 2 | What the figure does not reveal is the shift in the balance that has occurred during the 1980s towards overseas securities , prompted initially by the relaxation of exchange controls in 1979 and encouraged subsequently by the strong performance of some overseas economies and stock-markets . |
| 3 | This trend has persisted in the 1980s ; by 1989 the mean age at marriage stood at 24.8 for women and 26.9 for men . |
| 4 | Recent evidence does indeed suggest that total factor productivity has increased during the 1980s . |
| 5 | Thus although poverty among lone mothers has increased in the 1980s , as a group they have long been vulnerable to poverty . |
| 6 | Interest in runaways , street children and child prostitution has heightened during the 1980s . |
| 7 | Amino-acid data for a variety of proteins has accumulated throughout the 1980s . |
| 8 | The fine print of the speeches of Labour leaders and party policy documents has changed during the 1980s . |
| 9 | Some marketing commentators also take the view that the objective of successful marketing has changed in the 1980s . |