Example sentences of "[noun] over the [num ord] thirty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The revision of liturgical texts over the last thirty years has brought both problems and opportunities . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The interest in generative grammars over the last thirty years has resulted in a variety of theories for generative processing of language . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although food production has risen in many LDCs over the last thirty years , imports of cereals have increased . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | British Rail over the last thirty years . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That many of today 's church musicians seem to be unfamiliar with developments in hymnody over the last thirty years is noted as significant by the Hymn Society of Great Britain and Ireland . |
| 14 | The question of how quickly and how voluntarily this process of ‘ Protestantization ’ was accomplished has seriously divided Reformation historians over the last thirty years ; it will be discussed in detail in Chapter 6 . |
| 15 | The market 's size far exceeds cumulative US deficits over the last thirty years . |
| 16 | The dominant linguistic school over the last thirty years has been generative linguistics which has its foundation in Chomsky 's revolutionary Syntactic Structures ( Chomsky , 1957 ) . |