1 In the last thirty years, more than a thousand rural workers and activists have been killed in land disputes in Brazil, seven hundred and seventy-two of those in Para.
2 With the oil price soaring above thirty dollars a barrel and the pumps going nearly at full capacity, Gulf Arab coffers are overflowing with unforeseen wealth.
3 Suddenly there was a flash of light and Tom came tearing by him: "Run!" said he; "run, for your life!" He needn't have repeated it; once was enough; Huck was making thirty or forty miles an hour before the repetition was uttered.
4 The opening up of nearly thirty European countries to Chinese tour groups unlocks whole new vistas for the narrow but growing slice of the population with the disposable incomes to take advantage of it.
5 It provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters.
6 Almost a quarter of the world's mammals face extinction within thirty years, according to a United Nations report on the state of the global environment.
7 They built a fire against the side of a great log twenty or thirty steps within the sombre depths of the forest, and then cooked some bacon in the frying-pan for supper, and used up half of the corn "pone" stock they had brought.
8 I shall continue to act as Adele's governess; by that I shall earn my board and lodging, and thirty pounds a year besides.
9 He was young -- perhaps from twenty- eight to thirty -- tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.
10 Almost thirty years ago, NASA's Mariner Ten spacecraft took the most recent pictures we have of Mercury, revealing a rocky surface - wrinkled like an old apple.
11 He said the lack of sustainable food production was contributing to severe shortages which threatened more than thirty million Africans with starvation.
12 The company has failed to achieve last year's sales projections by thirty percent.
13 At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit ; and at forty, the judgment.
14 Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.
15 Don't trust anyone over thirty.