Example sentences of "end of the [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 2 | The introduction of Japanese plants to South Wales , and later to north-east England ( led by Nissan ) , was widely seen chiefly as a spur to UK firms to ‘ improve ’ their working practices and productivity , although Dunning ( 1986 ) estimated that Japanese employment in the UK could increase to 22,000 by the end of the 1980s and to a possible 250,000 by the year 2000 . |
| 3 | His marriage ended , he was distracted by love , and for a while at the time of the oil crisis it was hard to make a sale , but towards the end of the Seventies and into the Eighties , things picked up . |
| 4 | Palestine towards the end of the sixth and in the course of the fifth centuries BC ) , it is significant that the principal concern of the Priestly Code ( the code with which we are primarily concerned , see p. |
| 5 | Recognition of this new client awareness came fairly late and it served to liven the ‘ flats versus houses ’ debate at the end of the 1930s and into the 1940s . |