Sentence examples for Post-war peak from inspiring English sources

Membership is today down from a post-war peak of 500,000 to 250,000, though it is still the largest women's organisation in the UK.

Inner London as a whole has yet to overhaul its post-war peak, whereas Hillingdon and Barnet, which lie either side of Harrow, are booming.

Furthermore, the share of American earnings paid out as dividends has declined from a post-war peak of almost two-thirds to about one-third in 2007, with many firms preferring stock buybacks (which have now ground to a halt).

Whereas in that year wage inflation hit a post-war peak of over 30%, economy-wide average earnings are now rising just 3.4% a year; public-sector pay growth has recently fallen to 4.4% from 5.6%.The labour market is a bit slacker than it looks.

Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system gives them only 62 of Parliament's 646 MPs (hence their enthusiasm for proportional voting models), but that tally still represents a post-war peak for a third party at Westminster.The Lib Dems' ability to command such support partly explains why no party may be able to get an overall parliamentary majority at the next election.

The collection was made up of writers from the 1960s and early 70s who found that traditional journalistic approaches failed to capture the disillusionment lurking in post-war, peak turmoil, pop-cluttered America.

In the first two cases, jobless rates are at post-war peaks (see chart and article).In this section Any ideas?

Attendances did receive a fillip from the World Cup victory and the following two seasons saw a rise to the 30 million mark, which represented the peak since the post-war heyday.

Between the mid-1950s mid-1960s the mid-1960s thehe peak-war's "lofg boom"—real wages in the United Kingdom doubled and the option of "earning" or learning was a real one with a growing higher education sector that catered for increasing numbers of working class students by offering grants.

The substation was built at a time when post-war regeneration of Sheffield was at its peak and is therefore symbolic of that era.

York reached their record average league attendance of 10,412 during the 1948 49 season, which was the peak year of the post-war attendance boom.