Example sentences of "the last 30 " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This is not to undervalue the change in judicial thinking which has come about in the last 30 years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The discoveries made in the last 30 years about the action of drugs on the brain are important medically and philosophically . |
| 16 | The installation of slates and tiles in the last 30 or 40 years has included the fixing of bituminous felt beneath the battens to afford a further barrier against driven rain , snow , dust and offensive smells . |
| 17 | She will have spent the last 30 years of their marriage sitting in the passenger seat of the car which she is still unable to drive , disappearing into the kitchen when his climbing friends call round for a beer , and laughing dutifully at his mountain anecdotes over a dinner she has made for his boss . |
| 18 | However , numbers of purebred Shorthorns in Britain have dropped sharply in this century , particularly in the last 30 or 40 years from about 25,000 in the 1950s to not many more than 3,000 in the 1980s . |
| 19 | The amount of silt that the Huanghe brings to the China Sea ( 1.6 × 10 t per year ) represents a 25 per cent increase over the last 30 years and is due mainly to the conversion of grasslands to arable fields ( Smil 1987b ) . |
| 20 | Over the last 30 years , when names like Pele , Eusebio , Cruyff , Müller and Maradona were igniting world football , the people of Scotland could retaliate with their own itinerary of hapless dupes and national scapegoats . |
| 21 | The image of the disastrous goalkeeper has haunted Scottish football for the last 30 years . |
| 22 | A cruel analysis of the last 30 years in education might say that the succession of Schools Council , then the Schools Curriculum Development Committee and then the NCC neatly summarises the way that education has been perceived over this period . |
| 23 | During the last 30 years there have been 12 accidents around the world that have caused serious damage to a reactor core . |
| 24 | Situated on the edge of the attractive village of Tiffield , Ark Farm has evolved from a number of farms over the last 30 years . |
| 25 | The great steps forward taken over the last 30 years have not been undone . |
| 26 | My wife has been a golf widow for the last 30 years . |
| 27 | Remove the foil for the last 30 min and serve hot or cold . |
| 28 | Over the last 30 or 40 years , the actual quality of marriage has grown in importance and this may well be reflected in the higher divorce rates . |
| 29 | DEMAND for water in Britain has increased by two thirds in the last 30 years . |
| 30 | He says : ‘ The initial expectation was that Eastern Europe would replay the last 30 years of telecommunications history in Western Europe , buying miles of copper cable and so on . |