Example sentences of "the [num ord] 30 " in BNC.
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| 1 | They get bored easily , so if you ca n't excite them in the first 30 seconds of your record , you are probably in the wrong business . |
| 2 | Although the hero met his death within the first 30 pages of the trilogy , the vast and mysterious intricacies of his ‘ Seldon Plan ’ still amazed the reader after 700 . |
| 3 | Dickins had had nothing more than a back pass and a free-kick to deal with in the first 30 minutes but showed signs of nervousness when Bull challenged for a Birch free-kick . |
| 4 | The first 30 years of the computer age have spawned libraries of speculation as to the ultimate impact of computers on human dignity and morale . |
| 5 | In the first 30 years of this century , bus technology had improved considerably , with pneumatic tyres , better roads and , during the 1930s , the replacement of petrol by diesel engines . |
| 6 | ‘ The chorus has got to happen within the first 30 seconds , it 's got to be memorable after the first play and it 's either got to make you feel reflective or happy . ’ |
| 7 | Actually there are many stars with proper names , but in general these are used only for the first 30 or so , plus a few fainter stars of special interest — such as Polaris , Mizar in the Great Bear , and the variable star Mira , in Cetus , the Whale . |
| 8 | For the first 30 days in Nepal bank exchange receipts for $20 a day are no longer required to obtain a trekking permit . |
| 9 | The Norwegian SNSF project found that 80 per cent of the pollutant content of the winter snowpack is released in the first 30 per cent of the meltwater ( Overrein et al. , 1980 ) . |
| 10 | ‘ He smelt the cigarette smoke and I was fired , typical of my luck during the first 30 years of my life , ’ recalls Caine , 59 . |
| 11 | The first 30 of a batch of Chinese firefighters arrived in Kuwait City on Aug. 23 . |
| 12 | For the first 30 minutes after meal completion data were sampled every minute , followed by 3 minute frames for the remainder of the study . |
| 13 | The mean resting pressure in the lower oesophageal sphincter during the first 30 minutes of the recording was 17.6 ( 6.3 ) mm Hg . |
| 14 | The change in gastric acid secretion , between basal acid secretion and stimulated acid secretion , that occurred during the first 30 minutes after sham feeding was compared with the change in urine acid output ( DUAO ) over the same period . |
| 15 | In the first 30 days there were no deaths at centre C , 5 at B , and 7 at A ( centre C vs centre A and B : Fisher 's exact test p=0.005 ) . |
| 16 | The first 30 in through the doors at Doc 's Orders in Yarm Road tonight will receive a copy of the EP . |
| 17 | In Benenson 's words : ‘ The gradual change over the last 30 years in the public perception of the value of human life is a measure of Amnesty 's influence . |
| 18 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 19 | This week , he put a good case for regarding Alec Douglas-Home , Lord Home of the Hirsel , as one of the most under-rated comedians of the last 30 years . |
| 20 | The reality is that it is extraordinarily difficult to get any change in these kinds of laws — as the last 30 years of procedural mugging by both sides shows in relation to abortion , and the five-year gestation period of this Bill shows with regard to experimenting . |
| 21 | Over the last 30 years I have kept a fairly meticulous diary , and this includes not just fishing detail but an accurate record of the conditions . |
| 22 | Mills lost his first managerial job after seeing his side win only two Second Division games in the last 30 while spending more than £1 million . |
| 23 | Such comments about the DTI 's effectiveness as a corporate policeman could have been made almost at any time over the last 30 years and in a multitude of cases . |
| 24 | In a tragic testimony to the commercial success of the package holiday business over the last 30 years , melanoma now ranks as Britain 's fastest growing cancer . |
| 25 | There is no reliable estimate of abundance for the franciscana , although the incidental gill-net kill of tens of thousands of dolphins over the last 30 years has undoubtedly significantly reduced the total population . |
| 26 | LaBudde documented for the first time , on video and in his diaries , the suffering and death of thousands of dolphins in a tuna fishing practice known as ‘ fishing on porpoise' ’ , which has over the last 30 years killed between 6 and 12 million dolphins in the eastern Pacific . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's been an enormous change over the last 30 or 40 years , a much greater acceptance of sexual differences , despite the moral politics of Mrs Thatcher and Aids . |
| 28 | ICE HOCKEY : Barring a miracle , the National Hockey League 's 75th season is over , with the last 30 games of the schedule and the Stanley Cup play-offs still to be played . |
| 29 | For the last 30 years of her life Lady Onslow lived at Notting Hill Gate , and in the mid-1970s she led her neighbours in a rates protest against the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . |
| 30 | It may be that ‘ no action ’ would turn out to be a very wise option based on the experiences of miniaturisation over the last 30 years or so . |