Example sentences of "in the [adj] 1960s [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the affluent 1960s he chaired a committee on which I sat and participated in the agreeable task of giving away large sums of private money to deserving research projects . |
| 2 | In the early 1960s she played a part in saving Brownsea Island from development : the island is now owned by the National Trust , and the Dorset Trust for Nature Conservation manages part as a nature reserve Helen Brotherton is the current Chairman of the latter organisation and , as well as serving on the National Trust 's Council , Appointments Panel and Conservation Panel , she was Chairman of the Wessex Regional Committee for a number of years . |
| 3 | In the early 1960s it became clear that compulsory continuing education was actually becoming a hindrance to recruitment . |
| 4 | Beto is very proud , and I think justifiably so , that in the early 1960s he asked the Texas legislature at every session for a considerable amount of money to build for the future , and received it . |
| 5 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century the problem was ill-health , sanitation , poor housing , overcrowding and social disorder , ; between the wars it was diet , hygiene and the slums ; in the mid 1960s it had become deprivation ; a current thread throughout was an unfit dwelling stock and environmental disadvantage . |
| 7 | What litigation might have been promoted by the Labour government 's aborted proposals in the late 1960s we shall never know . |
| 8 | In the late 1960s I went regularly to the plaza cinema in the Isles of Scilly . |
| 9 | When I first encountered de Santillana 's paper in the late 1960s I found it both fascinating and suggestive . |
| 10 | In the late 1960s it was found that the drug amphetamine could induce some of the symptoms of schizophrenia in otherwise normal subjects . |
| 11 | But the agency does have the job of approving materials and devices ( as well as drugs ) intended for the treatment of disease , and way back in the late 1960s it rightly concluded that none of the artificial hearts available was fit for the task for which it had been designed . |
| 12 | In the late 1960s it was considered impossible to generate computer imagery at a high enough resolution to project onto a Cinerama screen — the electronic equivalent of ‘ grain' would have been unacceptably coarse and spotty . |
| 13 | In the late 1960s it only applied to the clearing banks . |
| 14 | In the late 1960s he came out of retirement to skipper Warwickshire 2nd XI . |
| 15 | In the expansive 1960s he would have advanced rapidly and involuntarily , but now he saw himself as a failure and felt vaguely responsible for this . |