Example sentences of "was [vb pp] in the late 1980s " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that this was formed in the late 1980s and that our estimated time for previous changes to reach the Rockall Trough was 18–19 years , we predict that the next decade will see continued cooling and freshening of the subpolar gyre as the latest form of LSW circulates around the North Atlantic . |
| 2 | A big effort was made in the late 1980s to try to get just about everyone over 15 to read and write , using more than 20,000 volunteer teachers , 14,000 of them women . |
| 3 | Collected by the likes of Ingrid Bergman , Syrie Maugham , Francoise Sagan and Brigitte Bardot , her work was rediscovered in the late 1980s resulting in exhibitions and collaboration with fashion houses . |
| 4 | While in France there were signs of a reassessment of the building programme ( which was reduced in the late 1980s from 15,000 to 13,000 new places ) the expansion in the United States has continued unabated . |
| 5 | The process , called Digital Video Interactive ( DVI ) , was invented in the late 1980s in the RCA Laboratories of the David Sarnoff Research Centre , Princeton , New Jersey . |
| 6 | The highly sophisticated and expensive fighter was conceived in the late 1980s as a joint project by Germany , the United Kingdom , Italy and Spain [ see pp. 33880 ; 35289 ; 36106 ; 36429-30 ] . |