Example sentences of "thirty years [subord] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we explained in our previous book , and as virtually all serious biblical scholars concur , the Gospels , in treating such issues as these , were either drastically rewritten or , more likely , distorted the events they describe — which would have taken place at least thirty years before they were composed . |
| 2 | I was in , I was in the industry for thirty years before I realized or find out that it 's an Arabian craft . |
| 3 | My God , they knew how to plan families twenty years , thirty years before you were born . ’ |
| 4 | He was fifty when his rise to prominence began soon after the accession of Amenophis III , whom he was to serve for thirty years before he died at the age of eighty . |
| 5 | Most eventually got honorary Lifetime Achievement Awards — alias the ‘ Whoops , sorry , we forgot you ’ Oscars , or even ‘ Whoops , sorry , we did n't know you were still around ’ , as happened to Sophia Loren in January , thirty years after she won Best Actress for Two Women . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I 'll say this , ’ said one elderly notable : ‘ We did n't think owt to that Machin when he were alive , and I doubt we 'll change our minds thirty years after he 's gone . ’ |
| 7 | But My Lords the idea that independent people is news nonsense for the last thirty years so we 've had independent people on the police authorities by the of the magistrates and there 's nothing new in that . |
| 8 | Cos I say she 's been there thirty years so she must do alright , everybody knows |
| 9 | and they 'd both been there thirty years since they 've left school |