Example sentences of "thirty years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thirty years we had . |
| 2 | With our specialist design engineering experience developed over thirty years we have shaped creative architectural designs into structural and decorative finishes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Thirty years they 've trained me to give nothing away and you can still read me like a book . ’ |
| 5 | Cos if your washing machine machine lasts for thirty years they 'd go out of business would n't they ? |
| 6 | For the next thirty years she worked among the poor in Wapping , Rotherhithe , and Dublin , retiring in 1925 , at the age of seventy-nine , to her old home in Braintree , now a convent run by Franciscan nuns as an old people 's home . |
| 7 | For nearly thirty years it 's been lost . |
| 8 | But for another thirty years it remained solely an entertainment for princes and wealthy aristocrats , mostly at Mantua , Florence , Bologna , Parma , and Rome . |
| 9 | Yeah that 's and it 's got worse in the last twenty or thirty years it 's got much worse I think . |
| 10 | Yet the point which he rightly argued was that for the previous thirty years he had personally controlled the maintenance of the ditches and hedges of this parish , so why should he consider newfangled ideas about nature conservation being built into any proposed scheme now ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was not until after the 1914 war and nearly five years with the French army — although domiciled in England for some thirty years he never at any time entertained the idea of becoming a naturalized British subject , considering it highly improper for a Frenchman to renounce his country — and following the failure of his London decorating business , which before the war had been successful , that Boulestin turned to cookery writing . |
| 13 | Over the next thirty years he was to write or illustrate over seventy books . |
| 14 | For more than thirty years he was president of the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol . |
| 15 | And in addition to that , am I right in saying , for thirty years you 've been a nun ? |
| 16 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 17 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 18 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | William Osborne 's project manager , Steve Answell , who was responsible for master-minding the nine-month building phase , commented ‘ The amount of detailed investigation and the thoroughness with which it has been done represents the most comprehensive thinking that has ever gone into a new lifeboat in all the thirty years I have been associated with building them . ’ |
| 21 | For thirty years I was his friend . |
| 22 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |