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 .
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