Complex sentence: During the 70's and 80's it was suspended, then re-activated in 1993 after 34,600 redundancies in the UK Armed Forces with almost half from the army taking redundancy.
Split into simpler sentences: During the 70's and 80's it was suspended. It was re-activated in 1993 after 34,600 redundancies in the UK Armed Forces with almost half from the army taking redundancy.