Sentence examples for 1970s from inspiring English sources

Gazans are materially cut off from the world economy, just as in Cuba: everything patched up and odd flashes of modernity amid an economy trapped in the 1970s – the occasional new car alongside battered Volvos and even more battered donkeys.

A third driver was racism in the housing market: many new migrants in the 1950s to 1970s faced appalling discrimination with "No blacks, no Irish, no dogs" signs common in the windows of lodging houses.

We are making the biggest investment in roads since the 1970s and the biggest in rail since Victorian times, connecting 40,000 premises to superfast broadband every week, and starting an energy revolution with the first new nuclear plant in a generation, the world's first green investment bank and the largest production of offshore wind on the planet.

At the annual conference of his Traditional Unionist Voice party in Belfast last weekend Allister relished the prospect of taking on a political Goliath that has tramped all over the Northern Ireland landscape since the 1970s.

1pm: lunch at Jackson's Emporium We stop off at Jackson's Emporium in the town of Hamilton for lunch – a place that features a giant, ornate piece of folding scenery from the Christmas window display of Myer in the 1970s.

And yet, in the 1970s, Thistle were only narrowly defeated on a vote for Scottish League membership in their own right by Ferranti, later Meadowbank, Thistle.

In the early 1970s I went to Suffolk to write for two or three months in the winter.

But the money ran out in the early 1970s, and the renaissance (and most of the British film industry) went south soon after.

The TUC had expected up to 2 million workers to go on strike and, with the number of teachers still unknown, unions are confident that the final tally will top 1 million, making Wednesday the biggest day of strike action since the late 1970s.

SBD has its roots in the idea of "defensible space", created by the American architect and town planner Oscar Newman in the early 1970s, as a result of research he carried out in three deprived New York housing projects.

Since its founding in 1934, the SNP had experienced its share of surges – the first in the late 1960s, another in the mid-1970s – but more often than not, the party found itself on the political sidelines, its claim to speak for Scotland ignored or disbelieved by most voters.