Sentence examples for 1960s from inspiring English sources
'1960s' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is used to describe a decade of time i.e. the 1960s. Example sentence: The 1960s was a time of great social change in America.
noun
The decade beginning in 1960 and ending in 1969.
By the 1960s Ian Nairn could call Manchester a place of "rained-off Test matches and forbidding hotels".
Tory supporters of equal marriage are making an eleventh hour plea to fellow Conservative MPs to vote in favour of reform by invoking the record of Margaret Thatcher, who supported the legalisation of homosexuality in the 1960s.
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Compared with the 1960s and 1970s, when Enoch Powell was exploiting dislike of Caribbean immigrants in particular, the passage of time and the accumulation of personal contacts have changed our attitudes.
Even when Gurlitt's apartment block was built in the 1960s, the area was still fairly poor and edgy.
A member of the literary movement known as Die Sestigers (the 1960s generation) alongside Breyten Breytenbach and poet Ingrid Jonker, Brink wrote in both Afrikaans and English.
Ancerl had flourished as the builder, director and inspiration of the Czech Philharmonic to its standing among the greatest orchestras in the world during the 1960s and 70s.
Federal cabinet will consider on Monday night a substantial contribution to the estimated $1bn cost of buying and demolishing up to 1,000 Canberra homes that had loose-fill asbestos insulation pumped into their ceilings in the 1960s and 70s.
Their proposal for Persborg was the winning entry in a bid launched by the city and municipal housing company MKB to find ways of invigorating residential areas built as part of Sweden's large-scale Million Programme in the 1960s and 70s.
By the time The Full Monty came to the club, what Howden and others see as the halcyon days of the 1960s and 70s – when "everything was hunky dory" and "you got shifts, did work, came out, went for a drink" – were long gone.
Instead, grangers are active, reengaging with the activism of the 1960s and 70s, out on picket lines, cooking up food for strikers, getting arrested at protests, rallying in the streets, peopling anti-fracking and anti-logging and anti-McDonalds and anti-war actions – organising, planning, plotting.
