Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the last thirty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been argued that in Britain , on every major social issue that has come before the courts during the last thirty years , the judges have supported ‘ the conventional , established and settled interest [ and ] have reacted strongly against challenges to those interests ’ ( Griffith , 1991 , p. 325 ) . |
| 2 | But Professor Cizek of Vienna has been putting these ideas into practice for the last thirty years , with the results you may see exhibited . |
| 3 | Thus at a time when Africa needs to industrialize , to create both exports and jobs , a review of the last thirty years shows how difficult this task has been and will be . |
| 4 | Sotheby 's will be offering one of the two greatest paintings by Kandinsky to be offered at auction in the last thirty years . |
| 5 | It is difficult to provide any comparable data over the last thirty years and though the general impression is one of slight reduction in socio-economic inequalities in GP consultation , this should not be taken for granted . |
| 6 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 7 | The revision of liturgical texts over the last thirty years has brought both problems and opportunities . |
| 8 | However , the quality of economic decision-making in most African countries over the last thirty years suggests that this is inextricably linked to the relative failure of aid . |
| 9 | Additionally , just like modern-day cars , the airlines of the last thirty years appears to lack true ‘ staying power ’ . |
| 10 | The interest in generative grammars over the last thirty years has resulted in a variety of theories for generative processing of language . |
| 11 | But My Lords the idea that independent people is news nonsense for the last thirty years so we 've had independent people on the police authorities by the of the magistrates and there 's nothing new in that . |
| 12 | Extant interpretations of this diptych , however , vary radically , and the case that will be argued here appears to be the least orthodox view , at least to judge by the published criticism of the last thirty years or so . |
| 13 | If the Plowden Committee had referred therefore to ‘ the social changes of the last thirty years ’ instead of fifteen , they would have been guilty of no inaccuracy . |
| 14 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 15 | ‘ Manifeste ’ concentrates on the art of the last thirty years , thereby overcoming a chronological and methodological rift , which results from the way the works are currently arranged . |
| 16 | A confrontation between William Thomson and T. H. Huxley was good to watch , and showed that scientists did not always agree , even about what was evidence or the right way to argue : while evolution in the last thirty years of the century was generally accepted , there was no agreement about times and processes . |
| 17 | The reasons for this should not be obscured by the fact that the short term objectives of aid have undergone several changes over the last thirty years . |
| 18 | One of the most devoted of the pupils of Cyril and Methodius , Clement ( Sveti Kliment ) of Ohrid , built a monastery on the shores of Lake Ohrid , which was to be a centre of Christian learning for the last thirty years of his long life ( he died in 916 ) . |
| 19 | It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized — ‘ precious ’ , ‘ insulate ’ , ‘ toylike ’ — the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable , and better than respectable , counterweight to Eliot . |
| 20 | Although food production has risen in many LDCs over the last thirty years , imports of cereals have increased . |
| 21 | One of the most significant changes in the national economy over the last thirty years has been the shift in employment from the manufacturing sector to the service sector and the associated growth in female employment . |
| 22 | British Rail over the last thirty years . |
| 23 | To mark the new trend five floors of the Centre are being given over to a series of exhibitions , films , digital images , sound recordings , debates and theatrical events , tracing the history of artistic creativity over the last thirty years . |
| 24 | It should not be forgotten that although India has made remarkable economic progress over the last thirty years , it is still a Third World country in which enormous numbers of people live in conditions of severe poverty . |
| 25 | That many of today 's church musicians seem to be unfamiliar with developments in hymnody over the last thirty years is noted as significant by the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 26 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 27 | Thus the most influential sociologists researching on later life in the last thirty years have been first and foremost concerned with documenting poverty and need among the old , rather than looking at their present lives as a whole , or how they reached where they are now . |
| 28 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 29 | The question of how quickly and how voluntarily this process of ‘ Protestantization ’ was accomplished has seriously divided Reformation historians over the last thirty years ; it will be discussed in detail in Chapter 6 . |
| 30 | The market 's size far exceeds cumulative US deficits over the last thirty years . |