Assertion: firm's activity | /r/CapableOf | become important
Facets:
value: increasingly
type: DEGREE
value: after the late 1980s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The then Big Eight, now Big Four, accounting firms (PricewaterhouseCoopers; KPMG; Ernst & Young; Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu) had always offered advice in addition to their traditional services, but after the late 1980s these activities became increasingly important in relation to the maturing market of accounting and auditing.