Hello What is the meaning of the "by the 1980s"? Until 1980s (1980s and earlier)? Or at 1980s (only the decade of 1980s)? I will appreciate your help.
"The '80s" is short for "the 1980s" in most contexts, though if one were writing a history of the 19th century, it might be short for "the 1880s." As you can tell from the previous paragraph, I don't use an apostrophe for the plural. Generally, plurals do not take an apostrophe. I use one when leaving it out could cause confusion.
Stereotypical working-class London males, no later than the 1980s. Well, only four months ago The Guardian was keeping the word on life support in connection with (have you guessed it?) Danny Dyer, whose off-screen persona is as geezer-ish as the tv/film roles in which he's (type-?)cast. Danny Dyer is back on top geezer form
My connection with pandas goes back to my days on a TV show in the mid-1980s, when I was the first Western TV reporter ______ (permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. How about just "permitted". Is correct too?
I've encountered this phrase I've never seen before in an article Does anyone know what these means? The context is that men are having haircuts but are 'dejaba Como ninos-pera' (context is 1980s Spain)
There are about a dozen terms starting with "meta-" in the index. Gödel, Escher, Bach - Wikipedia In my propositional logic class, we defined logical languages and then languages which could describe or manipulate those languages, i.e. meta-languages. This was back in the 1980s.
Hello, This is from an Irish film taking place in the country at the beginning of the 1980s. A father leaves his 10 year-old daughter to a cousin to spend the summer. He's very negative about his daughter, complains children are expensive to feed. The cousin and his wife who welcome the girl...
By the 1980s, the format 15 January 1989 had become dominant. People's personal habits might be more resilient to change, but I think most companies that have a house style have the date in this format.