Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the [num ord] 30 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This month sees the publication of a new book by Doug Scott , recording his climbing career over the last 30 years in photographs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The work at Wharram Percy reflects the development of medieval rural settlement studies in England and our understanding of the implications of the development of the landscape over the last 30 years . |
| 11 | The amount of silt that the Huanghe brings to the China Sea ( 1.6 × 10 t per year ) represents a 25 per cent increase over the last 30 years and is due mainly to the conversion of grasslands to arable fields ( Smil 1987b ) . |
| 12 | It claimed a transformation in the status of embroidery over the last 30 years , from ‘ genteel craft for women ’ to the Art of an ‘ avant-garde ’ on ‘ the cutting edge ’ with ‘ a new spirit of self-expression and innovation ’ . |
| 13 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |