Example sentences of "next few years " in BNC.
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1 | The signs are that the next few years will see some extensive soul-searching about art history ; several books have already appeared . |
2 | Mr Clark said legislation ensuring re-inspection could come into force within the next few years and he warned that it could result in hotels being prosecuted if they contravened their Fire Certificates . |
3 | ‘ I 'm going to be away increasingly in the next few years . |
4 | Apart from the UK and Scandinavian countries , penetration is still low in Europe , but this is expected to change over the next few years as telecommunications markets are opened up . |
5 | Initially , the company will create 200 new jobs , rising to 520 over the next few years . |
6 | This would lead to a decline in the volume of less essential traffic in urban and rural areas and bring an overall reduction in all its adverse effects , including its contribution , through carbon dioxide , to global warming — certain to be very high on the political agenda in the next few years . |
7 | Howard Davies , the commission 's controller , says that , as schools are given more financial and managerial independence over the next few years , authorities should monitor quality on behalf of ratepayers and parents , rather than pretending that all their schools are equally good . |
8 | Scientists had thought weather patterns would reduce the size of the hole over the next few years . |
9 | Mr Cohen said there was ‘ great scope for building up a British-based group hand tools business over the next few years . ’ |
10 | Chrysler 's aim is to increase European sales to 100,000 a year over the next few years — a plan almost certain to involve right-hand drive vehicles for the UK . |
11 | Look ahead — is your disability likely to get worse in the next few years ? |
12 | Only a day or two ago in The Times , a high academic figure was complaining that ‘ the nature of the demand for education , at least over the next few years , seems unlikely to correspond with any precision to the national need for more scientists and technologists ’ . |
13 | In the next few years there will be fewer young people and these tend to make up the majority of staff in many outlets , so caterers — and particularly the large chains — will come to rely more on automation in the near future . ’ |
14 | Other findings were that 67 per cent think standards will decline in the next few years if things carry on as they are and that 77 per cent agree teachers do a good job in spite of everything . |
15 | As the Western and Eastern alliances fade — as now looks increasingly likely over the next few years — the European Community will become the dominant focus for European foreign policy and security . |
16 | The next few years look likely to take him closer to that kind of life , the life of his ancestors . |
17 | Monitoring and attempting to prevent the pollution will cost millions over the next few years and will be passed directly to the consumer as an unforseen expense . |
18 | Suggestions that small and medium enterprises are going to find life particularly difficult in the labour market of the next few years are also made in a study of recruitment problems by the Local Economy Research Unit at Hatfield Polytechnic . |
19 | RAIL fares are scheduled to soar in the next few years and at least 5,000 railway jobs will be lost following the Government 's decision to slash grants for British Rail in the early 1990s . |
20 | Over the next few years , all farm support was phased out . |
21 | Toyota plans to make them at Georgetown when it doubles annual car output from 200,000 to 400,000 in the next few years . |
22 | These are likely to be hefty in the next few years as the European Community ( EC ) tightens the rules on drinking water and imposes new ones on sewage disposal . |
23 | British consumers will have to find £90m to meet the EC 's directives over the next few years ; might this large amount of money not have been better spent , say , in building hospitals and schools ? |
24 | The industry did not shriek too loudly : the strength of demand over the next few years kept everyone reasonably happy . |
25 | Reviving investment will be one of America 's biggest challenges in the next few years . |
26 | In the light of what was to happen in the next few years , defeat by just 2–0 may be seen as something of a triumph , especially in view of the two traumas that occurred . |
27 | No one could foresee that over the course of the next few years the steel industry would be successfully reorganized and taken into the private sector . |
28 | ‘ Acid house was nothing to what 's in store , ’ he says , and Danny nods excitedly in agreement : ‘ Who knows what 's going to come along in the next few years ? ’ |
29 | Longevity seems set for the next few years , at least , to have , at best , a sharply reduced economic value . |
30 | The next few years saw several appeals for sanity from top scientists who were Disarmers — in 1955 an appeal to renounce force because radio-activity could wipe out ‘ whole nations , neutral or belligerent ’ was signed by fifty-two Nobel prizewinners . |