Example sentences of "three decades " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cold War was at its height when Peter Benenson , the British lawyer , founded Amnesty , and three decades later it is hard to believe that the Moscow AI Group finally has permission to become part of Soviet life . |
| 2 | In the last three decades there has been considerable success for auctioneering , both in terms of money and also in prestige . |
| 3 | Evan 's botanical records , kept meticulously for three decades , were placed immediately at the NCC 's disposal and still underpin its botanical data base . |
| 4 | Arriving in East Berlin at the height of the country 's most serious political crisis for more than three decades , Mr Gorbachev had earlier in the day , in a brief encounter with enthusiastic East Berliners , spoken of the need ‘ not to panic — that 's the most important thing ’ . |
| 5 | For over three decades , Moscow has stuck to the explanation it gave in 1957 to the then Swedish Prime Minister , Tage Erlander : that 10 years before , in July 1947 , Raul Wallenberg had died in Lubyanka prison . |
| 6 | Above all , there was a general belief that , after three decades of social welfare and redistributive taxation , the spirit of Beveridge and ‘ fair shares ’ was not dead , and that Britain was a far more equitable society than before the war , with more genuine opportunity for different classes and races . |
| 7 | After forming the core of a post-war consensus for over three decades since the Attlee period , the bitter legacy of the old order was now seen in the uncollected refuse bins and undug graves which popular credence ( somewhat exaggeratedly ) identified with ‘ the winter of discontent ’ . |
| 8 | The Longman Group 's semi-official history of the party will doubtless provide the basic starting-point for scholars of twentieth century Conservatism for years to come , but to date it offers still only a largely introductory , if more detailed , survey of the Conservative party in the first three decades of this century . |
| 9 | In fact one of the striking characteristics of the history of Africa 's informals during the last three decades is how few of them have managed to launch genuine large-scale businesses , capable of competing with the foreign-owned or -managed enterprises which are still so critical in many countries . |
| 10 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 11 | My own choice for the single most influential factor would be the decision of the Hungarian Government to subordinate its very clear obligations under an agreement with the GDR to its general duty under the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 — a decision which blew a hole in the sealed frontiers of the GDR , and relegated to the past the comfortable slogans of the last three decades . |
| 12 | Cuba said that more than 2,000 of its soldiers were killed while fighting abroad over the last three decades , nearly all of them in Angola . |
| 13 | Cuba said that more than 2,000 of its soldiers were killed while fighting abroad over the last three decades , nearly all of them in Angola . |
| 14 | Plucked from obscurity by US intelligence and groomed into a CIA asset over three decades , the general took no chances . |
| 15 | Even so , the bulk of the increase would have to come from improved yields , as it has in the past three decades . |
| 16 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 17 | Throughout the first three decades of our post-imperial era , equipment-cost inflation has outstripped monetary inflation , and there has been insufficient growth in the British economy to make up the difference . |
| 18 | America inherited Britain 's thankless task of trying to maintain a semblance of stability in the Middle East , and has been singularly unsuccessful in doing so over the three decades that have passed since Suez . |
| 19 | IN THREE decades at the top , President Félix Houphouet-Boigny transformed a tropical slum into a model for Africa . |
| 20 | Later this year the party will hold a congress , only the fourth Mr Castro has convened in three decades . |
| 21 | From 1982 to 1989 the debts of non-financial firms in America rose by nearly 12% a year , way ahead of the 8.3% average annual growth for the previous three decades . |
| 22 | During the 1980s , although the population grew by more than 2% a year ( see box ) , real GNP grew by nearly 6% , well up from the 3.5% a year in the first three decades of independence . |
| 23 | His father , the twelfth Earl , spent almost three decades as Lord Chamberlain to the mother of the present Queen . |
| 24 | There was virtually no constituency organisation to cope with a major campaign — it had not been needed for three decades ! |
| 25 | But we are looking not just at the renewing of an orchestra over one decade but a process of change and evolution over more than three decades . |
| 26 | Bush , whose discoveries in his three decades have included the likes of A-Ha , did not go lightly into making his offer . |
| 27 | At any rate , so far as Zuwaya are concerned , it was those men who were fifty to sixty years old in 1979 who had created in the previous three decades the marked differences in wealth which did exist . |
| 28 | With the domestic revolution of the past three decades , our family emotions have certainly thawed , but there is still something to be said for resisting the tendency to involve children in every aspect of the parental life . |
| 29 | Despite three decades of campaigning by homosexuals to remove the stigma from their sexuality , to call a man a queer in Britain is still an actionable insult in the minds of the ‘ right-thinking people ’ who make up libel juries . |
| 30 | Rixi Markus was the author of a dozen books , and was bridge correspondent of the Guardian for more than three decades . |