Example sentences of "for thirty year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trod it for thirty year , |
| 2 | Maria has lived paralysed in this bed for thirty years . |
| 3 | One can only ponder at the ethics of an industry which for thirty years slaughtered dolphins in their millions for the sake of saving 2 cents per can , and then requires an ‘ epic ’ debate to change its source of supply . |
| 4 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 5 | Untouched for thirty years , ideal for a nature trail — the undisturbed habitat of birds and animals . |
| 6 | Crosby in 1981 was a classic example : the voters lost a man they had known for thirty years and they did n't know who to vote for instead . |
| 7 | He held the Chair of Botany at Cambridge for thirty years , although he ceased lecturing in 1735 and that University 's Botanic Garden was not established until 1762 ( see Chapter 17 ) . |
| 8 | The official factory view is that you can not but as the vehicles have been out of production for thirty years , testing by the factory has not been carried out . |
| 9 | For thirty years I 've been trying to give an affirmative reply to that question . |
| 10 | Little progress was made for thirty years . |
| 11 | ( This is perhaps why those who appointed me enquired rather anxiously whether I , too , meant to enjoy the kingdom for thirty years . ) |
| 12 | For thirty years a charity , financed in part from police pay , had helped supplement the clothing of the city poor . |
| 13 | When the prisoners were moved , two of them had been in The Fleet for thirty years . |
| 14 | Despite the fact that this guitar is only days old , the neck has a vintage feel to it , as though it has been active in the field for thirty years . |
| 15 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 16 | For thirty years after his marriage Benjamin hardly let his feet touch the ground before he was on the move again — giving us over a dozen different addresses for him during his lifetime . |
| 17 | For some reason he remembered old Doyle , the gardener , dead now for thirty years , leading him up the same pathway round to the back door and into the kitchen for the mid-morning cup of tea . |
| 18 | I 've been doin' it for thirty years , since old Doyle died . |
| 19 | Brownlow had been dealing with human vagaries for thirty years . |
| 20 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |
| 21 | Christine Jackson , a Manchester-based national officer of the Equal Opportunities Commission and personal friend of Horsley for thirty years , became Director of Personnel in charge of Equal Opportunities . |
| 22 | When he attacked C. P. Snow in Two Cultures ? ( 1962 ) , it was the last act of a drama in which he had played for thirty years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For thirty years , Clark has been obsessed with sex and death and has achieved some notoriety for his books Tulsa ( 1970 ) and Teenage Lust ( 1984 ) , in which his nude models have portrayed , in turn , lust , despair and boredom . |
| 25 | He had known Nurse Jones for thirty years , she was an institution in the village . |
| 26 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 27 | The Royal Academy shows Calder in the first British show for thirty years |
| 28 | This will be the first exhibition devoted to this aspect of Canaletto 's work to be held for thirty years , and lenders will include H.M.The Queen , the National Gallery , the National Trust and many private and public collections . |
| 29 | That split between cultures is the focus of this uncritical biography by Dore Ashton , an art historian who knew Noguchi for thirty years . |
| 30 | It had been an indifferent season for the New York Yankees , the team he had followed faithfully for thirty years , and , at 4-I down to the Detroit Tigers with two innings left , defeat seemed to be on the cards for a third successive game . |