Example sentences of "[prep] thirty years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 2 | I mean for thirty years we feel like brothers and sisters with them , and it is unfortunate that Saddam Hussein has turned it all now against everybody . |
| 3 | Cos if your washing machine machine lasts for thirty years they 'd go out of business would n't they ? |
| 4 | The trapdoors which covered the original apertures and which had been closed for thirty years he managed to get open with the aid of a tool , a screwdriver from the appearance of the marks . |
| 5 | And in addition to that , am I right in saying , for thirty years you 've been a nun ? |
| 6 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 7 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 8 | For thirty years I was his friend . |