Example sentences of "over the [adj] 30 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surgery encounters like these have become increasingly common over the past 30 years with the erosion of the traditional divisions between sickness and health , which have led to , among other things , the medicalisation of ‘ anxiety . ’ . |
| 2 | A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years . |
| 3 | A glittering figure on the international financial circuit , he not only provided East Germany with much-needed foreign currency but also played a central part in all political and economic exchanges with West Germany over the past 30 years . |
| 4 | The 1986 data destroyed the myth that the foreign kill rate was comparable to the US rate , and confirmed that the widely accepted official figure of 6 million dolphins killed by purse seiners over the past 30 years was a gross underestimate . |
| 5 | Over the past 30 years the region 's forest cover has fallen from 42% to less than 15% . |
| 6 | Over the past 30 years , musicological , historical and biographical research have all led towards a new Mozart . |
| 7 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 8 | It is fascinating to see how theory and experiment have vied for the lead over the past 30 years , with first one then the other leading the way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have certainly made many more friends over the past 30 years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The banking and finance sector has grown more than 20 times in real terms over the past 30 years so that it now accounts for almost 20% of GDP , compared with 5% in 1960 . |
| 13 | LORD Underhill , one of the stalwarts of the Labour Party over the past 30 years , has died aged 78 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , over the past 30 years statutory regulation has diminished somewhat in importance in France and collective bargaining has developed considerably , doing much more than filling the gaps left by legislation . |
| 16 | Over the past 30 years there has been a sprinkling of repairable incidents and three Spitfires totally lost with pilot fatality . |
| 17 | What this broadening and wide variation demonstrates is that over the past 30 years the issue of child abuse has become symbolically and politically very powerful ( Parton , 1985 ; Nelson , 1986 ) in arguments about the welfare state and the family . |
| 18 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 19 | Over the past 30 years investors in American and British IPOs who sold their shares on the first trading day earned returns of 15% and 12% respectively . |
| 20 | As with other types of support , we observe similar patterns in studies undertaken in different regional locations , and at different times over the past 30 years . |
| 21 | The transformation of the Japanese economy over the past 30 years has been highlighted by its stunning record of growth in output , productivity and exports . |
| 22 | He points to American chemical giant , Du Pont , which has lost the equivalent of only one working day in industrial action over the past 30 years . |
| 23 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 24 | In addition to natural rings , a lot of synthetic macrocyclic molecules have been investigated over the past 30 years . |
| 25 | We have only to look at the disciplinary background of vice-chancellors over the past 30 years to see evidence of the modern superior position of science and technology . |
| 26 | We have indications that black people have , over the past 30 years , become more present in the criminal statistics than the previous generation , reaching a level with , and in some categories , exceeding the indigenous population . |
| 27 | Written as a journalistic offering without benefit of references or even a bibliography , it still manages to inform the reader on many of the internal features of Saddam Hussein 's rise to power , though it has an infuriating tendency to dart back and forth over the past 30 years , too much like a 1960s film trying to be clever . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Over the past 30 years , as choice and competition have worked their way through , variety and quality have improved . |
| 30 | There have been occasions over the past 30 years when the attendance in this House for my speeches has not been quite as large as it is today . |