Example sentences of "thirty years i " in BNC.
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| 1 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 2 | Returning after thirty years I saw the country with a fresh eye . |
| 3 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | For thirty years I was his friend . |
| 7 | For more than thirty years I have been fighting for them . |