Example sentences of "[coord] in 1988 " in BNC.
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| 1 | It operates in thirty-seven countries around the world and in 1988 celebrated ninety years in the recorded music business . |
| 2 | As production increased farmers had a growing surplus over their household requirements and sold an increasing proportion of their crop , reaching 60 per cent in 1985 and in 1988 , and accounting for half of the national marketed production . |
| 3 | In 1983 he was one of the original members of the international Academy of Humanism , and in 1988 he received the International Humanist Award ‘ in recognition of his long-standing contributions to the cause of human rights , the scientific outlook , and the ideals of humanism . ’ |
| 4 | In 1987 , 1422 whales were killed , and in 1988 , the toll rose to 1690 pilot whales . |
| 5 | Other species are also victims of the Faroese kills , and in 1988 , over 600 other small cetaceans were killed , including 544 Atlantic white-sided dolphins slaughtered in a single drive . |
| 6 | Even in rugby , the Afrikaners ' passion , the formation of a single non-racial administrative body is imminent ; the octogenarian rugby boss , Danie Craven , has long thought it a game for robust men of all races , and in 1988 angered Mr de Klerk by sending an emissary to contact , among others , the African National Congress — one of whose leaders is now working to dismantle the boycott . |
| 7 | In 1983 it sold the contents of a Spanish galleon which went down off Cartagena carrying uncut emeralds and gold , and in 1988 homely spades , belaying pins and scrubbing brushes from HMS Invincible , a Royal Navy warship which foundered on a sandbank . |
| 8 | In 1957 UK publishers produced 20,719 titles ; in 1967 , 29,617 ; 1977 , 36,322 ; 1985 , 52,994 ; and in 1988 , 62,063 . |
| 9 | However , most informed commentary suggested that its 860 acres had always been too small , and in 1988 it was virtually doubled in size . |
| 10 | Dr. Bernard L. Pitcher was the first born-deaf man in Britain to gain a doctorate , and in 1988 , was still alive living in retirement at Worthing , Sussex where he was the secretary of the local deaf club . |
| 11 | Limiting emissions of nitrogen oxides is also an important step , and in 1988 a further United Nations Protocol to control NOx was signed by 25 countries ( including the UK ) in Bulgaria . |
| 12 | When we consider that 10 per cent by weight of domestic refuse is metal , and in 1988 a total of 5.6 billion drinks cans were sold in the UK , the need to encourage an efficient and easy recycling scheme is obvious . |
| 13 | Jaye flew the coop as soon as decently possible and in 1988 landed a job in London with the society couturiers , the Emmanuels . |
| 14 | ‘ Each year seems to bring a new craze , anything but study ’ , he continued , as I was told of the ‘ talking about reform ’ craze in 1985 , before the student unrest ; that of democracy in 1986 ; falling in love in 1987 ; and in 1988 the preoccupation with ‘ doing business ’ . |
| 15 | Sex differences in prevalence among 16–19 year olds disappeared in the late 1970s and in 1988 , 28% of both men and women in this age-group were cigarette smokers . |
| 16 | After 1986 , therefore , interest in EMU revived and in 1988 the Hanover summit set up another committee to look at the idea . |
| 17 | Kohl had always had to cope with the personal problem of appearing lacklustre and undynamic , and in 1988 even close colleagues doubted whether he could remain as Chancellor for long . |
| 18 | Fletcher first played for Essex in 1962 , was capped the following year and captained the county from 1974–85 and in 1988 , leading them to their first-ever Championship in 1979 . |
| 19 | We argued for it and voted in favour of it in 1987 and in 1988 . |
| 20 | In 1986 , she finished 18th , in 1987 , 9th and in 1988 , 16th . |
| 21 | The incentive of higher wages and technological assistance from Soviet aid programmes resulted in increased rubber production , and in 1988 rubber exports earned the country $24,000,000 . |
| 22 | This was in accordance with a 1987 debt restructuring agreement whereby creditor banks agreed to allow the repurchase of up to $500,000,000 of debt obligations , and in 1988 $299,000,000 had been repurchased for $167,000,000 from foreign reserves at a 44 per cent discount . |
| 23 | The future of the Swiss nuclear industry had been in doubt for a number of years , particularly since the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union [ see pp.34460-62 ] , and in 1988 the government had halted plans to build a nuclear power station at Kaiseraugst near Basel [ see p. 36499 ] . |
| 24 | The electronics , telecommunications , automobile and household goods industries were particular highly developed , and in 1988 provided 58 per cent of all Soviet mopeds , 56 per cent of telephones and 48 per cent of milking machines . |
| 25 | Both Harold Wilson and Margaret Thatcher have appointed BBC chairmen for personal reasons rather than suitable qualifications , and in 1988 the Conservative Government was strongly condemned for appointing its political partisans Lord Rees-Mogg ( to the Chairmanship of the BSC ) and Lord Chalfont ( to the Deputy-Chairmanship of the IBA ) . |
| 26 | He also took up fishing , fellwalking and sailing and in 1988 he climbed the Himalayas . |
| 27 | At its height Baring Securities generated up to two-thirds of the privately-owned merchant bank 's profits and in 1988 won a Queen 's Award for Export . |
| 28 | ICI is a key supplier to the Harrow Factory and in 1988 and 89 won a Q1 supplier award . |
| 29 | The parsing proved to be a more difficult task than we had imagined , and in 1988 still less than 10% of the corpus is accurately parsed . |
| 30 | They are low-income countries and India has more desperately poor people than anywhere else in the world , but in 1988 China 's growth rate was 11 per cent and India 's 8 per cent , well ahead of their population increases . |