Example sentences of "[art] next [adj] years [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He told Labour delegates , ‘ Over the next 10 years the water authorities are looking to pay out about five and a half billion pounds in dividends alone . |
2 | During the next 10 years the patient suffered bouts of subacute obstruction and frequent faecal impaction with admissions for abdominal pain , absolute constipation , and vomiting , necessitating left extended hemicolectomy at the age of 22 . |
3 | For the next two years the King lived in various places , sometimes treated as a prisoner , sometimes as an honoured guest , but hardly ever able to consult with his most trusted advisers . |
4 | During the next two years the Prince saw Wallis once or twice a week . |
5 | If this happens , then for each of the next two years the charity 's accounts will have to be audited . |
6 | Over the next two years the language of the policy was toned down , but the policy itself was sharpened . |
7 | Over the next two years the protest movement , a mixture of genuine discontent , sincere concern and self-indulgence , petered out . |
8 | Increasingly during the next fifteen years the triangle formed by Swansea , Pontardulais , and Ammanford — with the fr owning eminence of Carreg Cennen Castle in the distance — provided him with a retreat and a source of healing as he faltered towards his final realization as a poet . |
9 | Over the next five years the USAF plans to buy 560 missiles , 137 launch vehicles and 79 launch control centres at a total cost of $3800 million . |
10 | For the next four years the society put pressure on the brewery to save the cottages and improve the frontages . |
11 | A movement was born that provided for the next four years the reference point for the left , and for artists and what passed for Britain 's Beats . |
12 | The immediate crisis passed , but during the next six years the monarchy 's problems if anything intensified , with military humiliation in Morocco and social unrest raging in the emerging anarchist strongholds of urban Catalonia and rural Andalusia : all this against a background of chronic governmental instability . |
13 | In the next six years the workforce is due to rise only slowly , by 600,000 overall . |
14 | No new ones were created after Pennsylvania , and over the next fifty years the government bought out most of the proprietors ' rights . |
15 | Over the next thirty years the shipyard prospered . |
16 | For the next thirty years the Duke and Duchess lived in Paris . |
17 | For the next thirty years the Duke and Duchess lived in Paris . |
18 | Between 1541 and 1570 the labourers recorded in the Myddle parish register formed only 7·1 per cent of adult males , but during the next thirty years the proportion rose to 23·4 per cent . |
19 | For the next twenty years the number of unemployed never fell below a million . |
20 | Over the next three years the museum will spend $10 million to shift 1,000 works into a coherent scheme embracing the whole of Western civilisation since the Middle Ages . |
21 | Over the next three years the government plans to commit just £3.3 million on this field and to redirect British research towards collaboration with other European countries . |
22 | During the next three years the industry has committed £1 billion to cleaning up its discharges and recycling wastes which would otherwise be dumped . |
23 | The first teashop opened in 1894 in Piccadilly , and during the next few years a chain of teashops was opened in London . |
24 | During the next few years the plague was always with us . |
25 | For the next few years the horde ravaged at will through the mountains , desecrating shrines , despoiling tombs , and waylaying travellers , but Grom was unable to take any of the Dwarf holds or bring them to battle . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Over the next few years the planning of urban motorways had considerable impact on the metropolitan areas of the West Midlands , Greater Manchester , Merseyside and Greater Glasgow , and the M4 , snaking across West London , was the longest road viaduct in Europe . |
28 | So far the birds in this country are being reared solely for sale as breeding pairs , but it 's hoped in the next few years the stock will be large enough to sell the birds for their meat . |
29 | Over the next few years the book saw suggestions for all manner of things — for packet tobaccos to be sold at shop prices , for a device to be put on the smoking room door to stop persistent slamming and a complaint that the bushes on the 5th made the hole a flukey . |
30 | For the next 40 years the name of Edna Jacques was the synonym for ‘ saleable verse ’ and she published volume after volume . |