Example sentences of "the [num ord] thirty " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scale on which Pound was working was not clear even to the poet himself ; so that the eleven cantos which he originally designated as ‘ preparation of the palette ’ are now by responsible commentators considerably extended — to the extent that the first thirty cantos , which are all that the twenties knew of the poem ( A Draft of XVI Cantos ( Paris , June 1925 ) ; A Draft often Cantos 17–27 ( 100 copies , September 1928 ) ; and A Draft of XXX Cantos ( 210 copies , August 1930 ) ) , are now often regarded as laying out no the painter 's palette the hues that only in subsequent cantos would be combined to polemical and imaginative purpose . |
| 2 | Of the first thirty cantos by themselves , no account is more plausible than that of a writer in the New York Herald Tribune Books for 9 January 1927 , who decided : ‘ Mr Pound is avowedly writing a history of the Mediterranean basin' . |
| 3 | The first thirty seconds were the worst . |
| 4 | At Norwich , where they lost 2–0 , the Cobblers played the first thirty minutes without their skipper McCartney — he had missed his train . |
| 5 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 6 | The importance of this should not be missed : one aspect of growing local government spending in the first thirty years after 1945 was that the balance between sources of funding shifted dramatically . |
| 7 | In the first thirty years , about 62,000 emigrated ; another 5,000 in the 50s and 60s . |
| 8 | Scanning through the Utopia 's 128 presets , the first thirty being exclusive to this system , Rocktron have tried to make them as varied as possible in order to demonstrate the rig 's potential , and while most of them are usable there are a few which defy logic . |
| 9 | For all the increase , over 21,000 people left Sussex altogether in the first thirty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 10 | THE FIRST THIRTY years of this century saw the emergence of three theories that radically altered man 's view of physics and of reality itself . |
| 11 | The first thirty seconds were fairly inconclusive . |
| 12 | He opened in London in 1898 in The Three Musketeers , and then toured for four years , adding fifty new parts to the first thirty . |
| 13 | In the first thirty or forty years after the destruction of the Persian Empire , Greek philosophers and historians discovered the Jews . |
| 14 | This should be required reading for all tourists to Kenya — though they would need no coercion beyond the first thirty pages or so . |
| 15 | On the western clay plateau at Orwell the number of customary tenants who held yardlands or half-yardlands declined during the first thirty years of the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Although those who studied at Kiev University ( Vil'na 's successor ) had to know enough Russian to understand lectures , they constituted the majority of the new university 's students for the first thirty years of its life and did not need Russian to consort with their peers . |
| 17 | In deference to the first thirty years , as the man says , |
| 18 | From Micky who 's one of the most successful record pro producers that has ever been , he said if you have n't got an audience in the first thirty seconds you ai n't got the audience . |
| 19 | It seems fair to say , in fact , that the first thirty years of Proust 's life laid much of the intellectual basis for his later literary erm achievements , and it was incidentally also during the eighteen nineties , that , among other things , he obtained a , a Licence des lettres , that he attended Bergson 's lectures , that he discovered Ruskin , and that he wrote the bulk of nearly a thousand manuscript sheets discovered in an old hatbox after the last World War , and published as Jean Santeuil in nineteen fifty-two . |
| 20 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 21 | It is impossible to recognize in the poet thus characterized — ‘ precious ’ , ‘ insulate ’ , ‘ toylike ’ — the William Carlos Williams whom American opinon over the last thirty years has promoted as a respectable , and better than respectable , counterweight to Eliot . |
| 22 | If the Plowden Committee had referred therefore to ‘ the social changes of the last thirty years ’ instead of fifteen , they would have been guilty of no inaccuracy . |
| 23 | Dawson 's first book , The Age of the Gods ( 1928 ) , subtitled A Study in the Origins of Culture in Prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East , began by noting that ‘ During the last thirty years the great development of archaeological and anthropological studies has prepared the way for a new conception of history . ’ |
| 24 | The last thirty years have not therefore established precedents for the future . |
| 25 | Thus at a time when Africa needs to industrialize , to create both exports and jobs , a review of the last thirty years shows how difficult this task has been and will be . |
| 26 | The reasons for this should not be obscured by the fact that the short term objectives of aid have undergone several changes over the last thirty years . |
| 27 | However , the quality of economic decision-making in most African countries over the last thirty years suggests that this is inextricably linked to the relative failure of aid . |
| 28 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 29 | Come on , come on , he thought , and pictured the three of them plummeting down the last thirty feet into the basement . |
| 30 | In 1736 the Conservator and Supervisor of the Forest of Dean had reported to the Treasury , ‘ Within the last thirty years those Elections [ of Forest officers ] had been neglected , the Courts discontinued , and offenders left unpunished . ’ |