Example sentences of "thirty years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the Company did help is not known , and for over thirty years Hoyle went on in his own way . |
| 2 | The horrors of eighteenth-century madhouses engender disbelieving revulsion in the twentieth century , yet throughout the last thirty years scandal after scandal has been reported in the press with depressing regularity and without the concern that might have been expected in an apparently liberal and caring society . |
| 3 | It was compiled by the Rev Frank Goodridge , who was for some thirty years Chaplain Superintendent of the Royal Association of the Deaf ( RAD ) , a regional charity operating in and around London and Oxford . |
| 4 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |
| 5 | I 've just retired from the Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service after just over thirty years service having reached , reached the er full time that I matured , that 's thirty years service and attaining the ripe old age of fifty five . |
| 6 | Incidentally the pattern was to be repeated thirty years later : when under the Thirty Years Peace ( 446 ) Megara returned to the Peloponnesian League , and Aigina regained some kind of autonomy , Corinthian hostility towards Athens abated , only to revive in the mid-430s when Athens once again began to pressurize Megara , by the ‘ Megarian Decrees ’ , and to infringe the autonomy of Aigina ( Thuc. i.67 ) . |
| 7 | The immediate cause of the Thirty Years Peace with Sparta was Athens ' extreme vulnerability in 446 . |
| 8 | The Thirty Years Peace meant , for Athens , the end of the central Greek land empire , the end of the plan to control Delphi through the Amphictyony , the end of the Athenian outposts in the Peloponnese . |
| 9 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 10 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 11 | After all spondai , meaning literally libations , was the Greek word for treaties , like the Thirty Years Peace , which would have been broken by unprovoked coercion of Megara . |
| 12 | Certainly the Athenians were technically justified in accepting the neutral Corcyra as an ally , despite Corinthian claims that the Thirty Years Peace provisions about neutrals did not envisage their being enrolled by one side to the intended detriment of the other ( as if international treaties usually have anything to say about the future state of mind of the signatories ! |
| 13 | Kings who showed independence risked the fate of Pleistoanax , exiled in 446 — most unfairly , because Sparta ratified his provisional settlement with Athens , which became the Thirty Years Peace ( p. 46 ) . |
| 14 | So , for thirty years Alfred Glynn had preserved this room as it had been when he still believed that the silk counterpane and the eiderdown would be the covers on his marriage bed . |
| 15 | It was as irrational as it was melodramatic , but so was the darkened room where for nearly thirty years Alfred had striven to keep alive the great illusion of his youth . |
| 16 | But most interesting of all is the treatment given to Sidney Lee , described in his obituary as biographer , Professor of English , writer on the place of English literature in the modern university , and for thirty years editor of the Dictionary of National Biography.34 In reviewing Lee 's work , Ernest A. Baker identifies him as the complete " humanist " by virtue of his classical scholarship , his faith in beauty and reason , and his exalted hopes of human progress . |
| 17 | The prototype was converted from a production KI.107 and made its first flight over thirty years age , in December 1960 . |
| 18 | Thirty years on.The hip patient who wants to sue her childhood doctors . |
| 19 | Maybe in twenty or thirty years time England will take a Test series off them . |
| 20 | Edward could see quite clearly behind her shoulder , like the aura visible to spiritualists , the woman she would be in thirty years time . |
| 21 | If we go back to that first , second slide , if you 're still alive in thirty years time , you may actually want the money that you 've gifted to people ten years ago , and erm that 's the problem you 've got . |
| 22 | Most of these liabilities er inevitably are n't necessarily for pensions payments they 're back to the active members , some of whom wo n't make any actual claim on this possibly for thirty years time , so there could well be a er a a scheme which is arrived at which is a pay as you go , which is n't any great liability o on , on any one pension scheme at any particular moment in time . |
| 23 | Now if I 'm the fund manager and you 've got ta deferred member , nobody 's gon na waste thirty years for me to pay up their pension , I wo n't be here probably in thirty years time er so they want the money up front . |
| 24 | That I 've said erm if you take into account inflation at five percent which they , they , although they 're not , have n't put it in concrete , they reckon they 're gon na link it to inflation , erm that should be , in thirty years time , about five pounds . |
| 25 | His chapter reviewing the thirty years controversy that had followed Murchison 's work demonstrates Horne 's judicial cast of mind , as the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing views are clearly set out . |
| 26 | Over the last thirty years advertising , that most powerful publicity weapon , has discovered how lucrative it can be to add a " new dimension " to the service it offers to clients . |
| 27 | For some thirty years Hickey practised as an attorney at the Supreme Court established in 1774 in the capital of the new British empire in India to administer English law to the inhabitants of Calcutta and to British subjects in Bengal generally . |
| 28 | The Reich ended in the Thirty Years War of the early seventeenth century . |
| 29 | The Holy Roman Emperors were elected by three lay and three clerical Electors plus the King of Bohemia , a title always held by the Habsburgs after the Thirty Years War . |
| 30 | Around Remagen you cross from Westphalia into the Pfalz , the old Palatinate , so much fought over in the Thirty Years War . |