Example sentences of "in the [num ord] 30 years " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the first 30 years of this century , bus technology had improved considerably , with pneumatic tyres , better roads and , during the 1930s , the replacement of petrol by diesel engines . |
| 2 | Memories of Loma Prieta are not the only incentive ; the US Geological Survey a 50 to 60 per cent chance of a major quake in California in the next 30 years that will cost $50 billion in property losses alone . |
| 3 | In the next 30 years considerable progress was made in purifying and crystallizing proteins . |
| 4 | In the next 30 years , Britain expects the number of people over 65 to increase by 20% and the number of people over 84 to increase by 47% . |
| 5 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 6 | The discoveries made in the last 30 years about the action of drugs on the brain are important medically and philosophically . |
| 7 | DEMAND for water in Britain has increased by two thirds in the last 30 years . |
| 8 | In the last 30 years , and long before the amalgamation in March of the white and black and brown rugby factions , the unions were gradually split and sub-divided until now they number perhaps 26. of these , 20 are rural , including Boland and Border , and have been weakened to a point where they are virtually powerless , impoverished , dying or dead . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Oxfords and brogue styles have been standard office issue for most of this century , but in the last 30 years the loafer has — thanks to its American and Italian perfectors — become a relaxed and stylish alternative to lace-ups , but there are purists who still harbour doubts about its suitability for the boardroom . |
| 11 | Moore wrote that no artist has been more universally loved by her audiences in the last 30 years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But it is only in the last 30 years that Australia has secured the knowledge , technique and the desire to produce the sort of subtle , light wines which we enjoy — and at which Australia excels . |
| 14 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 15 | Average temperatures in the region have risen by about one degree celsius in the last 30 years . |
| 16 | This is the most he has conceded in some 250 outings for Bangor , an appearance record that tops any Seasider goalkeeper in the last 30 years . |
| 17 | And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years . |
| 18 | In the last 30 years the number of over-60s has risen by almost 50 per cent in the EC , from 46.5 million to 68.6 million , according to the survey by the EC 's statistical office . |