Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the last thirty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | British Rail over the last thirty years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The dominant linguistic school over the last thirty years has been generative linguistics which has its foundation in Chomsky 's revolutionary Syntactic Structures ( Chomsky , 1957 ) . |