Example sentences of "[prep] thirty years of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kersey said : ‘ I find it hard to believe that anybody , even a nut , would murder after thirty years of procrastination . ’ |
| 2 | After thirty years of marriage to Tom McBride , Beryl McBride sounded more Irish than did her husband . |
| 3 | Average family size after thirty years of marriage fell below 2.1 among women married in 1928 , reached a low of 2.01 among women married in 1936 , and rose to exceed 2.1 among women married from 1943 onwards . |
| 4 | that 's right because they 've just released papers after thirty years of work that he was doing for the M O D he was actually doing it in his role as a member of the P R flight , Beaver Brooke sold the government this idea |
| 5 | this was supposed to be celebrated after thirty years of rule and then tended to be held at more frequent intervals . |
| 6 | In the end , the radical change of direction which the country took under Mrs Thatcher was the result not merely of the party donning a new suit of clothes but of the electorate despairing at the failure of thirty years of consensus politics to do anything to arrest the inexorable process of national decline . |
| 7 | The Parliamentary majority in favour of including women was still small and as Martin Pugh has commented , ‘ when one remembers that the 1918 Act actually enfranchised boys of nineteen if they had served in the forces , the limit on women [ to those of thirty years of age or over ] was almost an insult ’ . |
| 8 | are the ultimate culmination of thirty years of rock guitar . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is written in every cell of my body and , most of all , in thirty years of oppression . |
| 11 | Vesuvius , which is only about ten kilometres from the centre of Naples and in one of the most densely populated areas of Italy , has an irregular cycle of eruptions with twenty-five to thirty years of quiet being followed by a major outburst , when a great plume of dust and ash from the volcano rises over the city , reaching many kilometres into the air . |
| 12 | Many people spend more time planning a holiday than in preparing for retirement , which may well occupy up to thirty years of life . |
| 13 | Their irrelevant experience , coupled with the impossible burdens of office , have contributed to thirty years of policy failure . |
| 14 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 15 | Bucephalus eventually died of wounds at thirty years of age , in 326 BC , following Alexander 's war with the Indian king , Porus . |
| 16 | Twenty-five years of exploitation have since been repaid by thirty years of largesse , but with dismal result : a situation which Professor Marshall Goldman of Harvard has likened to trying to cure a half-starved baby by overfeeding in old age . |