Example sentences of "thirty year ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 15s. a year in 1889 from their Society for Aged or Infirm Baptist Ministers ; Wesleyan retired ministers , after thirty years ' work , got $44 p.a . |
| 2 | This book is the substance of his Lyell Lectures in 1983 but is the synthesis of thirty years ' work . |
| 3 | The archdeacon — again a helpful and hospitable man with a great knowledge gleaned from more than thirty years ' experience of the paranormal — has written two books on his subject , Psychic Studies — A Christian View and Deliverance . |
| 4 | Dr Barsamian is a bio-physicist with over thirty years ' experience in the study of polymers and bio-polymers and their dielectric nature , As he explains : |
| 5 | With over thirty years ' experience in the market , ABS have developed the expertise to understand — and meet — your exact requirements ! |
| 6 | She knew from thirty years ' experience that bullies were a breed apart . |
| 7 | Employees ' attitudes er were fairly stable , fairly stable and some of the work that was done was so highly skilled er that it needed a craftsman 's experience to be able to get to that stage of being able to turn a job you know , to very fine limits , or to grind an objective to absolutely no limits , or to , to assemble a job with all the skill and the know-how that had been built up over his twenty five or thirty years ' experience you know , along with his colleagues . |
| 8 | My guess is that in about twenty or thirty years ' time , it would be reprinted and people would start to re-think , oh well , perhaps this is not so |
| 9 | Now , what the potential migrant will do , Harrison Todaro assumed , was to say , right what they 'll do is that they 'll , these migrants will mentally calculate the present value of receiving W A throughout their lifetime , right , and they 'll discount erm those wages by appropriate discount rate , reflecting the fact that a hundred pounds today is worth a lot more than a hundred pounds twenty years ' time or thirty years ' time . |
| 10 | No that 's erm , a hundred pounds in thirty years ' time is equivalent to receiving two pounds today , that 's right as you say . |
| 11 | Leaving the Lobkovic Palace , walk on down the hill to the American Embassy ( 15/365 ) formerly the Schönborn Palace ( 15/365 ) whose original owners , the Colloredo , were important militarily during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 12 | There is also a copy here of the Black Madonna of St Foy , brought from Belgium during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 13 | It was formerly the Leslie Palace , built by a Scottish mercenary who , in the Thirty Years ' War , was implicated in the murder of Wallenstein , one of the most powerful men in Bohemia . |
| 14 | By 1648 , at the end of the Thirty Years ' War , Catholicism held total sway . |
| 15 | The exuberant rush of ecclesiastical building was a byproduct of the Thirty Years ' War , which interrupted the German Renaissance and delayed the arrival of the Baroque until two generations after its origins in Italy . |
| 16 | Even during the later years of the reign , when Europe was embroiled in the early stages of the Thirty Years ' War and James 's MPs were calling for active English intervention on behalf of Protestants abroad , there were very few complaints in parliament about the state of religion at home . |
| 17 | White further asserted that a basic theological harmony was restored in the 1630s after England 's withdrawal from the Thirty Years ' War , and concluded by declaring that the so-called rise of Arminianism was merely ‘ a puritan alibi for repeated failures to impose rigid predestinarian doctrine on the Church of England ’ . |
| 18 | Frederick 's rejection of this sensible advice and subsequent acceptance of the Bohemian crown sparked off a series of events which culminated in the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 19 | During the early years of his reign Charles did intervene actively in the Thirty Years ' War by leading England into another war against Spain . |
| 20 | A lively portrait of Albert and the literary and musical aspirations of his circle is contained in Günter Grass 's The Meeting at Telgte which also provides an evocative and credible background to the horror of the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 21 | The poems , perhaps by Albert himself , express intimations of mortality and reflect the intensified anguish and heightened awareness of life 's transitoriness caused by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 22 | But he also showed a striking interest in international developments , particularly the progress of the Protestant cause in France and Germany during the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 23 | At the same time the clergyman-poet Johann Rist ( 1607–67 ) provided a focus for song-composition , comparable with Simon Dach , at Hamburg , a city which , like Königsberg , was untouched by the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 24 | He seemed to hear the gravelly voice of Cameron-Hyde the one-eyed history master discoursing on the origins of the Thirty Years ' War . |
| 25 | Golding and Middleton ( 1982 ) analysed press reports in their study of attitudes to poverty , and Ferguson ( 1983 ) analysed thirty years ' worth of three women 's magazines as data for her research into what she calls the ‘ cult of femininity ’ . |