Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] thirty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been argued that in Britain , on every major social issue that has come before the courts during the last thirty years , the judges have supported ‘ the conventional , established and settled interest [ and ] have reacted strongly against challenges to those interests ’ ( Griffith , 1991 , p. 325 ) . |
| 2 | It was renamed to the more familiar hydrogen in 1790 and ousted hot air as the preferred lifting agent for the next thirty years . |
| 3 | But Professor Cizek of Vienna has been putting these ideas into practice for the last thirty years , with the results you may see exhibited . |
| 4 | Thus at a time when Africa needs to industrialize , to create both exports and jobs , a review of the last thirty years shows how difficult this task has been and will be . |
| 5 | Sotheby 's will be offering one of the two greatest paintings by Kandinsky to be offered at auction in the last thirty years . |
| 6 | It is difficult to provide any comparable data over the last thirty years and though the general impression is one of slight reduction in socio-economic inequalities in GP consultation , this should not be taken for granted . |
| 7 | He now immersed himself in university life and history , and remained at St Edmund Hall for the next thirty years . |
| 8 | Although the majority of these barbarians moved on to Spain in 409 , some stayed behind : there were Alans active in Gaul under their leader Goar for the next thirty years ; they were to be settled in Gallia Ulterior , that is on land to the north of the Loire , in the 440s . |
| 9 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 10 | The revision of liturgical texts over the last thirty years has brought both problems and opportunities . |
| 11 | Those forty-eight hours were a small opening shot in the game of chance and challenge he played with his stamina over the next thirty years . |
| 12 | However , the quality of economic decision-making in most African countries over the last thirty years suggests that this is inextricably linked to the relative failure of aid . |
| 13 | In deference to the first thirty years , as the man says , |
| 14 | Additionally , just like modern-day cars , the airlines of the last thirty years appears to lack true ‘ staying power ’ . |
| 15 | The interest in generative grammars over the last thirty years has resulted in a variety of theories for generative processing of language . |
| 16 | But My Lords the idea that independent people is news nonsense for the last thirty years so we 've had independent people on the police authorities by the of the magistrates and there 's nothing new in that . |
| 17 | Extant interpretations of this diptych , however , vary radically , and the case that will be argued here appears to be the least orthodox view , at least to judge by the published criticism of the last thirty years or so . |
| 18 | If the Plowden Committee had referred therefore to ‘ the social changes of the last thirty years ’ instead of fifteen , they would have been guilty of no inaccuracy . |
| 19 | Others featured individually are the young Hamburg artist Wolfgang Strack , who uses the language of comic strips and will be giving his own version of the art of the last thirty years in the Hauptmann-Schule building ; and the American Max Neuhaus , who will be exhibiting on the main staircase of the AOK , a building erected in the 1950s and recently listed as being of architectural interest . |
| 20 | ‘ Manifeste ’ concentrates on the art of the last thirty years , thereby overcoming a chronological and methodological rift , which results from the way the works are currently arranged . |
| 21 | A confrontation between William Thomson and T. H. Huxley was good to watch , and showed that scientists did not always agree , even about what was evidence or the right way to argue : while evolution in the last thirty years of the century was generally accepted , there was no agreement about times and processes . |
| 22 | The reasons for this should not be obscured by the fact that the short term objectives of aid have undergone several changes over the last thirty years . |
| 23 | Abolitionists had to face the fact that for many of their fellow countrymen during the next thirty years open public meetings continued to have this resonance . |
| 24 | One of the most devoted of the pupils of Cyril and Methodius , Clement ( Sveti Kliment ) of Ohrid , built a monastery on the shores of Lake Ohrid , which was to be a centre of Christian learning for the last thirty years of his long life ( he died in 916 ) . |
| 25 | It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized — ‘ precious ’ , ‘ insulate ’ , ‘ toylike ’ — the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable , and better than respectable , counterweight to Eliot . |
| 26 | Although food production has risen in many LDCs over the last thirty years , imports of cereals have increased . |
| 27 | One of the most significant changes in the national economy over the last thirty years has been the shift in employment from the manufacturing sector to the service sector and the associated growth in female employment . |
| 28 | British Rail over the last thirty years . |
| 29 | To mark the new trend five floors of the Centre are being given over to a series of exhibitions , films , digital images , sound recordings , debates and theatrical events , tracing the history of artistic creativity over the last thirty years . |
| 30 | It should not be forgotten that although India has made remarkable economic progress over the last thirty years , it is still a Third World country in which enormous numbers of people live in conditions of severe poverty . |