Example sentences of "[adv] thirty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man going berserk in Surrey commuter town , gunning down thirty . |
| 2 | The future is a plate of steel floor covering that creaks and whistles as it is dragged clear of the supports to which it was bolted down thirty years before . |
| 3 | According to an oral tradition first set down thirty years after her death by Samuel Peckover , a prominent local Quaker , she was said to have been born in Paris , the daughter of James , Duke of York , then in exile , and an unnamed maid of honour to Queen Henrietta Maria , and to have lived at the English court from the Restoration to 1688 without , apparently , any contemporary ever noticing her . |
| 4 | The hundred shares index closed down thirty three point seven at two eight one two point two |
| 5 | The hundred shares index closed down thirty seven point five at two nine one five point nine |
| 6 | The hundred shares index closed down thirty one point one at two eight three eight point eight . |
| 7 | The hundred shares index closed down thirty seven point seven at two eight four three point eight |
| 8 | The hundred shares index closed down thirty one point one at two eight five seven point seven |
| 9 | The hundred shares index closed down thirty four point five at twenty-three , thirty-seven , point seven . |
| 10 | The hundred shares index closed down thirty seven point four at thirty seventy point six |
| 11 | Well it was n't that much thirty pence , but I mean we , it was , well they 'll have to buck up their ideas , |
| 12 | Apparently thirty seven thousand elderly people suffer from Alzheimer 's disease , and that 's just in this region . |
| 13 | With forty picked men he was given special powers ; 228 wagons were needed , but only thirty had been sent to Siberia . |
| 14 | ‘ He was only thirty . ’ |
| 15 | A tower over ten feet tall took only thirty seconds , and he would leave a trail of them around the passageways in his more creative moods . |
| 16 | He claimed that as only thirty architects had submitted Gothic designs in the competition and there were 200 other designs , his views were endorsed by the majority of architects . |
| 17 | Woodmill piled the pressure on and were finally rewarded with a Martin Shores goal with only thirty seconds left . |
| 18 | That leg of the trip took five hours fifteen minutes and we had only thirty minutes of fuel left . |
| 19 | Daniel Galvin in London has come up with a treatment that takes only thirty minutes and rather than causing a dramatic change , it softly camouflages grey hair with a subtle , natural-looking colour . |
| 20 | QUINN HAD DROPPED the attaché case into the open back of the Golf only thirty seconds after swerving around the corner of the street containing the apartment-block . |
| 21 | Heath formed the new one with an overall majority of only thirty . |
| 22 | Their senior officer , Lieutenant-Commander Norman Teacher RN , was only thirty years old and one of COPPs ' greatest difficulties in the early days was persuading senior command staffs to listen to the young navigators . |
| 23 | It 's only thirty miles away , but there 's no direct method of getting there because of the reef . |
| 24 | Finally , a detectable amount of genetic evolution in the brain and mind can occur within only thirty or forty generations , or very roughly a thousand years . |
| 25 | Whereas there were nearly two thousand SAS and SBS members , the 14th INT had no more than a hundred , of which only thirty were field-operational . |
| 26 | Perhaps only thirty , but wearied by some excess or other , the burnished sepia of his skin barely concealing a sickly iridescence , as though there was a mercurial taint in his cells . |
| 27 | It is fishing about fifty metres offshore , flicking its tail as it dives , and staying under the water for only thirty seconds or so . |
| 28 | Despite its rather skulking habits and fondness for dark , gloomy places , it is not really a shy bird , but with only thirty or forty birds left in the world — and probably all of them on Fregate Island — it must be one of the rarest . |
| 29 | With the COSE agreement only just signed , sources are saying that a further agreement may be only thirty days away on WOSE — the Windows Open Systems Environment — perhaps based on the technology Sun Microsystems has fostered from Praxis . |
| 30 | However , the supervision was of an extremely cursory nature : there were only thirty non-Koreans involved in observation over an area of approximately 40,000 square miles ( 100,000 sq . |