Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] 30 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 2 | The discoveries made in the last 30 years about the action of drugs on the brain are important medically and philosophically . |
| 3 | Eventually all the machines manufactured over the past 30 years were divided by the CCITT into three groups , imaginatively designated as Groups One , Two and Three . |
| 4 | For instance , if people have n't exhibited management ability in what they think are the worthwhile things they 've done over the past 30 years or so , the chance of them ever being good managers is remote . |
| 5 | Contemporary workshop rugs stem from a parallel tradition stretching back into antiquity , and many of the items produced during the last 30 years ( particularly those from the major weaving centres of Persia and Anatolia ) rank among the finest ever made ( p.95 ) . |
| 6 | In 1818 , the Walker colliery which had been closed for the preceding 30 years was reopened . |
| 7 | Examples of the latter include the installation of an electric blanket at Murrayfield , which has meant that they are the only home union not to have had a Five Nations match postponed within the last 30 years , whilst they always have a venue for important representative matches available there if the weather tries to sabotage the programme . |
| 8 | Having explored some of the causes of change and identified the areas which will continue to be debated for the next decade , it is perhaps appropriate to try to identify the developments which have occurred in the past 30 years . |
| 9 | Would another referral to the Restrictive Practices Court now be possible , on the basis of the changes produced by a further 30 years of publishing , UK entry into the European Community , and this recent decision of the European Court of Justice ? |
| 10 | So many people are having very hard things demanded of them , and our prisons have been vastly reformed in the last 30 years or so . |
| 11 | He worries at the extent to which known Felix pictures have disappeared in the last 30 years , and can detail those that have gone missing from Brighton , The Oval and a Piccadilly pub . |
| 12 | The big jeans names are already aware of the authentic newcomers , and are beginning to realise that the original utility styles they updated and bastardised over the past 30 years are the current fashion winners : watch them scramble to regain their own heritage . |
| 13 | Despite much discussion these days of the ‘ entrepreneurial personality , ’ few of the entrepreneurs with whom I have worked during the last 30 years had such personalities . |
| 14 | The most obvious was to seek better compounds than the original nitrogen mustards , and numerous alkylating agents emerged during the following 30 years . |
| 15 | In addition to natural rings , a lot of synthetic macrocyclic molecules have been investigated over the past 30 years . |
| 16 | There are a number of grammatical architectures that have been proposed and implemented during the last 30 years . |
| 17 | Perhaps now she will let me continue for the next 30 years . ’ |
| 18 | At this rate , the forest will be completely destroyed within the next 30 years . |
| 19 | The range of courses presently available , both advanced and non-advanced , has grown in piecemeal fashion , largely in response to the technological revolution which British agriculture has achieved over the last 30 years . |
| 20 | More than one-third of these have been lost over the past 30 years , taking with them thousands of varieties of apple and depriving wildlife of a traditional sanctuary . |
| 21 | In Guatemala , a beautiful country with a superficial air of tranquillity , the civil war has lasted for the past 30 years . |
| 22 | The number of single adult households has doubled in the past 30 years . |
| 23 | I learned more about coaching sprinters by reading this book than I have in the past 30 years in the sport . |
| 24 | Many so-called experts will tell you how the game has changed over the last 30 years . |
| 25 | Many treatments have evolved over the last 30 years for controlling upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage in patients with cirrhosis and portal hypertension . |
| 26 | CENTRA is the successor to NWRAC ( formerly ULCI ) whose course schemes and certificates in Machine Knitting have become well established over the last 30 years . |
| 27 | The production of energy from coal , nuclear fuels and solar and geothermal sources on the other hand should steadily increase over the next 30 years or so ( see table 5.19 ) . |
| 28 | The population of Hanoi has almost doubled over the last 30 years , but inadequate planning and sanitation measures during the expansion of the city have resulted in chronic subsidence and drainage problems . |
| 29 | Yet prostatic cancer is remarkably common ; coming third in cancer incidence after lung cancer and skin cancer in men , cases have doubled over the past 30 years and , according to experts , look set to double again by the year 2020 . |