Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] 30 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | His new-round reputation was also reflected in smart London society flocking to see the latest novelties from Australia — dead and alive — in the ornithologist 's house in Broad Street , as well as the number of subscribers willing to pay for his extravagant Australian publications , which would provide him with an income for the next 30 years . |
| 2 | ‘ He smelt the cigarette smoke and I was fired , typical of my luck during the first 30 years of my life , ’ recalls Caine , 59 . |
| 3 | The image of the disastrous goalkeeper has haunted Scottish football for the last 30 years . |
| 4 | As the tale is told , it was our historical imperial taste that set us up for our indulgent role in the money boom of the last 30 years . |
| 5 | ‘ We need to know exactly how Welsh Water 's long sea outfall off Kinmel Bay will influence pollution off our coast over the next 30 years , and we need to know that before they build their sewage works , ’ she added . |
| 6 | The work over the last 30 years at Wharram Percy in the East Riding of Yorkshire demonstrates how much can be learnt from consistent detailed research on one site about the development of the English landscape and of a site in its local setting . |
| 7 | Mr Briggs and his keeper have carried out most of the work over the last 30 years with help from an apprentice , part time estate workers and contractors . |
| 8 | That is likely to save 700 lives and more than 30,000 casualties over the next 30 years . |
| 9 | ‘ Efficiency ’ does not mean that the market is sufficiently clairvoyant to gauge the cash flow of General Motors for the next 30 years or more . |
| 10 | Guinness has a long history in the African continent and has progressively extended its distribution in the last 30 years . |
| 11 | The dry stores , in the form of special concrete vaults , are planned to accumulate 2,200 tonnes of spent fuel over the next 30 years . |
| 12 | These two questions represent the focus of a considerable amount of research by developmental psychologists over the last 30 years . |
| 13 | In a tragic testimony to the commercial success of the package holiday business over the last 30 years , melanoma now ranks as Britain 's fastest growing cancer . |
| 14 | An extensive programme of geological thin-sectioning of stone implements in various universities over the last 30 years has shown quite clearly that between 3000 and 1500 BC there were a number of heavily exploited sources of stone and flint which were used to make axes and other implements . |
| 15 | So I have decided to stick my neck out and to make some predictions for the next 30 years . |
| 16 | Misleading Government propaganda of the last 30 years — rail investment at an all-time high . |
| 17 | The experiments of the last 30 years in bringing up the young have failed . |
| 18 | Average temperatures in the region have risen by about one degree celsius in the last 30 years . |
| 19 | The Human Development Report 1992 released by the UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) on April 23 showed that the doubling of income disparities over the last 30 years had enabled " the richest 20 per cent of the world 's people [ to become ] … at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent " . |
| 20 | In 1934 the Minister of Transport , then Hore-Belisha , inaugurated a comprehensive survey of highway developments required in the London traffic area for the next 30 years , and an Origin and Destination census was conducted in June 1936 at London Docks ( note the then fixation in London road-traffic circles of facilitating good road communications to the Docks ) . |
| 21 | Moore wrote that no artist has been more universally loved by her audiences in the last 30 years . |
| 22 | But one of the striking lessons of much of social theory over the last 30 years ( picked out in Chapter 4 ) is that science — the apparently supreme epitome of rationality turns out to exhibit various kinds of non-rationality . |
| 23 | The total demand for water has increased by 70% over the last 30 years . |
| 24 | This month sees the publication of a new book by Doug Scott , recording his climbing career over the last 30 years in photographs . |
| 25 | In Benenson 's words : ‘ The gradual change over the last 30 years in the public perception of the value of human life is a measure of Amnesty 's influence . |
| 26 | This week , he put a good case for regarding Alec Douglas-Home , Lord Home of the Hirsel , as one of the most under-rated comedians of the last 30 years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It may be that ‘ no action ’ would turn out to be a very wise option based on the experiences of miniaturisation over the last 30 years or so . |
| 29 | Situated on the edge of the attractive village of Tiffield , Ark Farm has evolved from a number of farms over the last 30 years . |
| 30 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has set out its proposals for the development of water resources in Britain over the next 30 years . |