Example sentences of "[noun] in thirty years " in BNC.
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1 | 641 was the first new car to be built for Blackpool in thirty years . |
2 | I had n't ridden a bicycle in thirty years and was none too confidently negotiating the potholes , when suddenly an incredible-looking blue-black bird with a ridiculously long tail flew across the track — and I rode straight into the ditch ! |
3 | Does n't anybody else want to get up and scream DAVID HARVEY ! ! ! at the television , when ex wino Greavesie says Scotland have n't had a decent keeper in thirty years . |
4 | Yes , it 's worth two pounds in thirty years . |
5 | What you can buy with one hundred pounds today will buy just two pounds in thirty years ? |
6 | No that 's erm , a hundred pounds in thirty years ' time is equivalent to receiving two pounds today , that 's right as you say . |
7 | Three soccer fans accused of using forged banknotes have been set free by a judge in Turkey , and inflation 's dropped to its lowest level in thirty years . |
8 | The National Rivers Authority is to hold urgent meetings with council officials after torrential rain brought the worst flooding in thirty years to the Cherwell Valley . |
9 | The first National Assembly elections in thirty years appear to have given the opposition an overwhelming lead . |
10 | He does this with a modesty and a delight in enquiry which has lost none of its adventure in thirty years . |
11 | Much of the owner-occupation sector represents a recent addition to national wealth ; from 26.6 per cent in 1957 to 36.5 per cent of all wealth by 1985 — a 37 per cent increase in thirty years ( Sam Brittan , ‘ Keeping an eye on the national wealth ’ , Financial Times , 16 July 1987 ) , and this wealth has been much more equitably spread than has industrial wealth . |
12 | Martino 's ambition to reunite the series for the first time in thirty years has , however , been thwarted by the refusal of Sophia Loren to loan ‘ Study for a Pope V ’ , but the exhibition reassembles the remaining five canvases , including the version owned by the Musei Vaticani . |
13 | This will coincide with the completion of intensive redecoration of the Primate 's Palace , thus enabling the complete sequence of all six tapestries to be seen in their original setting for the first time in thirty years . |
14 | With open allies like the Primrose League , the case for collaboration was strong ; for the first time in thirty years of existence the Primrose League formally linked itself with the party in 1914 . |
15 | After months of restoration the two hundred seat auditorium will have an audience for the first time in thirty years . |