Example sentences of "thirty [noun pl] i " in BNC.

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1 he he 's got ta do this thirty hours I think it is
2 For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question .
3 Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye .
4 For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City .
5 And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know .
6 William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’
7 For thirty years I was his friend .
8 For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them .
9 Thirty pounds I 'm bid .
10 I if there is any problem that can be mentioned it wo n't take more than thirty seconds I would have thought .
11 ‘ About thirty kilometres I would guess . ’
12 ‘ By thirty hills I hurry down ,
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