Example sentences of "in the 1970s [pers pn] was " in BNC.

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1 Another place of worship was built in 1828 for the Methodists but as attendances dwindled in the 1970s it was decided to share with Christ church , a facility which made economic sense .
2 In the 1970s it was only a curiosity but around 1980 it had a renaissance when people discovered that in certain complicated molecules , involving both deuterium and tritium , the presence of a muon caused fusion to occur much faster than had been previously thought possible .
3 In the 1970s it was also the biggest in Europe with a population of 70,000 .
4 In the 1970s it was recognised that for decades there had been a growing imbalance between the consumer and the supplier or manufacturer .
5 Other problems of intercontinental telephone systems ' compatibility held the fax system back as well : in the 1970s it was still illegal to transmit fax signals overseas from the US via the public telephone system .
6 As a teenager , Goldberg was leader of the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler in the 1920s ; in the 1970s he was still in fine form , and his recordings should surely have been re-released on this occasion .
7 Mike Fesemeyer , a former colleague who now analyses bank shares for Nomura , says : ‘ Even in the 1970s he was perceived as a future chief executive or at least one of the bank 's fast track graduates .
8 In the 1970s he was detained without charge or trial for five years and tortured and held for long periods in leg-irons .
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