Collocations for "thirty"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "thirty" in context.
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thirty
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.adj
- are thirty [pieces, parts, chapters]
- is thirty years old
- (just) turned thirty (years old)
- will be thirty (years old) (tomorrow)
- a thirty-year-old
- thirty [weeks, days] later
- thirty weeks [ago, before, after]
- thirty-somethings
- [April] has thirty days (in it)
- thirty [years, months, minutes]
- thirty [patients, victims, students]
- costs thirty [dollars, euros, pounds]
- weighs thirty [kilos, grams, ounces, tons]
- measures thirty [miles, feet, meters]
- is thirty [miles] [long, deep, out]
- is thirty [miles] from [home, the airport, the city center]
- is thirty years [old, of age]
- thirty per cent of the [members, population, patients]
- the [show, episode, interview] lasts thirty minutes
- it will only take thirty minutes to
- a thirty-minute [period, test, slot]
- were thirty (of them) in [total, all]
- the number thirty
- [section, part, page] thirty
- [turn to, on] page thirty
- thirty plus [one] [equals, is, makes] [thirty-one]
- thirty [minus, take away] [one] [equals] [twenty-nine]
- [multiply, divide] it by thirty
- there are thirty in total
- no [more, fewer] than thirty
- [about, approximately, around, near] thirty
- [just, only] thirty left
- the maximum [speed, amount] is thirty
- is in her [early, late] thirties
- temperatures in the [low, high] thirties
- an age range of [eighteen] to thirty
'thirty' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
advertisement
- allotment
- apron
- boil
- boiling
- butler
- cycle
- digest
- dishwasher
- dollar
- dryer
- duration
- escalation
- estate
- ferry
- fleet
- foil
- forty
- grace
- humidity
- inch
- jog
- kitty
- league
- loop
- maximum
- mileage
- moped
- murderer
- payment
- percentage
- postage
- recess
- ruler
- seventeen
- sitting
- something
- spinning
- spouse
- swamp
- third
- treadmill
- tuna
- waist
- waiting
- workout