Sentence examples for 1974 from inspiring English sources

Hume's career 1968 Came to prominence in the Derry civil rights movement 1970 Helped found SDLP 1974 Involved in negotiations to set up power-sharing executive 1979 Succeeded Gerry Fitt as party leader and elected as European MP 1983 Won the new Westminster seat of Foyle 1988 Started series of talks with Sinn Fein, which resulted in the first IRA ceasefire in 1994 1998 Good Friday agreement.

In 1974, he became the youngest fellow of the Royal Society since I don't know when, so he had attracted public attention.

Its roots are in the second world war and the mutual loathing of both teams and sets of fans intensified after "The Mother of all Defeats", when the Germans famously triumphed over the Dutch in the 1974 World Cup final.

But Sarkozy's vote was the biggest first-round vote for the centre-right since Valéry Giscard d'Estaing in 1974.

Nurses went on strike in 1974 and the first major national dispute was the ancillary workers' strike in 1972.

If no combination of parties can agree there could be a second election this year – that happened only twice in the 20th century, in 1910 and 1974 – or an unstable minority government that struggles to survive from day one.

He has, he explains, been an Abba devotee since 1974, when he bought their single So Long for 10p in Woolworths.

She was US representative to the UN General Assembly during late 1969 and went on to hold two US ambassador positions - as ambassador to Ghana from 1974-77 (under Gerald Ford) and to the then Czechoslovakia under George HW Bush from 1989-92.

In this case it was Denis Healey, the chancellor from 1974 to 1979, who, in addition to grappling with the inflationary consequences of the quintupling of oil prices in 1973-74, also had to deal with the demands of powerful trade unions and unhelpful policy suggestions from the Liberals.

Sweden's policy is particularly generous, with parents having had the right to shared leave since 1974.

The photograph of Gary Oldman as Smiley on page 4 of the Review (The truth about spies, 17 September) looked so like Sir William Coldstream when I taught with him in his final years at the Slade school of fine art, UCL, 1974 to 1976.