Example sentences of "[adj] seventies [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temperatures were in the high seventies and with the absence of any wind it felt sticky and humid . |
| 2 | In the United States it peaked around 1966 , but was still much higher in the early seventies than in the early sixties . |
| 3 | Since labour supply did not increase to meet this demand , the growth of civilian employment was only marginally higher in the late sixties and early seventies than in the first half of the sixties ( table 11.2 ) . |
| 4 | In Germany and the United States in particular , business borrowing was higher in the early seventies than in the early and mid-sixties . |
| 5 | The United States and Canada did experience more industrial unrest in the early seventies than in the fifties and sixties , and money wages rose faster . |
| 6 | Now that was true until the late sixties early seventies and of course er you find there the election to the o to the White House of one Richard Milhous Nixon , conservative Republican er a man who was not above hiring gangsters and burglars to do his work for him , and this produced a reaction and if you read the , the presidential literature of the nineteen seventies you will find the opposite , you will find er political scientists , all American , er demanding reforms of the American system , not to make the president more powerful but to make the president less powerful . |
| 7 | Andy Norman is the Promotions Officer of British Athletics and the man mostly responsible for the extraordinary rise of the sport during the late seventies and throughout the eighties . |