Example sentences of "[noun] over the [adj] 30 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Environmental quality appraisals over the past 30 years showed that the nuclear industry had had an " inconsiderable " effect on the country 's environment , he said . |
| 2 | If we look at the development of computers over the past 30 years we see accelerated change of a phenomenal nature . |
| 3 | The death rate for bleeding peptic ulcers has averaged between 6% and 10% over the past 30 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I have had the immense privilege of serving the people of Worcester over the past 30 years . |
| 6 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | But unless there have been marked changes over the past 30 years in insolation , the quantum efficiency of phytoplankton photosynthesis , or rates of nutrient supply , interannual changes or lack thereof , in chlorophyll ( which we inferred from interannual changes in Secchi depths ) will reflect interannual variations in primary production in the North Pacific or any other ocean basin . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In 1988 it was calculated that over £16 billion had been spent by the Authority over the previous 30 years , about half provided by the Department of Energy or its predecessors . |
| 12 | These companies have developed great expertise in radioisotope technology for their own use over the past 30 years , and these skills , together with special instruments , are now offered by the Group to the chemical , oil and other process industries at large . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that NIA should be an attractive prospect , given the amount of public money which has been ploughed into the expansion of Aldergrove over the past 30 years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased . |
| 20 | I have certainly made many more friends over the past 30 years . |
| 21 | Western research on this subject over the past 30 years has identified a number of gaps and weaknesses in Soviet official socio-economic data , as well as many statistical series which , it is believed , can be used ( sometimes with adjustments for comparability with Western figures ) . |
| 22 | If , for example , primary productivity in the region is limited by iron , and iron is becoming increasingly available , the iron stimulation would have to lead to a reduction in upper ocean nitrate and phosphate in the summer over the past 30 years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | LORD Underhill , one of the stalwarts of the Labour Party over the past 30 years , has died aged 78 . |
| 25 | LORD Underhill , one of the stalwarts of the Labour Party over the past 30 years , has died aged 78 in St Margaret 's Hospital , Epping , Essex . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |