Example sentences of "[vb -s] set [art] target " in BNC.

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1 The European Community has set a target to reduce landfill use from its present rate of 70 per cent to 10 per cent by the beginning of the next century .
2 The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK .
3 The United States is also deeply involved in the promotion of ethanol production and has set a target of approximately 3477 million litres a year of alcohol for fuel use by 1982 .
4 The Dutch government has set a target of producing 1,000 megawatts of electricity by the year 2000 thorough wind power generation .
5 But the government has set a target of recycling twenty-five percent of household waste by the end of the century .
6 The North-East network has set a target that 90pc of short distance trains for example from Newcastle to Sunderland should arrive within five minutes of scheduled times .
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