Example sentences of "thirty years ago [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think that that is , is something that you know we looked at the you know the Mirror that you know while thirty years ago they were doing short punchy stories and they maintained that , that there was actually |
| 2 | Thirty years ago they built seven homes in the village for war veterans , in memory of the present owner 's great uncle , who was killed during the First World War . |
| 3 | Thirty years ago it would have been unthinkable . |
| 4 | When Anna brought it home — some thirty years ago it must be — the prince put it in his pocket . |
| 5 | About thirty years ago it was first demonstrated that a drug , 6-mercaptopurine , suppressed the immune response to bovine serum albumen in the rabbit . |
| 6 | Thirty years ago I was a research assistant , part of a team working on a project designed by someone else . |
| 7 | ‘ Must be thirty years ago I started reading his ‘ Jottings ’ . |
| 8 | Absolutely now I mean i i it 's interesting for women because I suppose in Australia I was a Republican and here I suppose I thought I saw about two erm now for me to have used that word thirty years ago I would possibly have been locked in the garden shed and left without food and drink |