Example sentences of "years ahead " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BAe 1000 , claimed by BAe to be two years ahead of the competition , will be able to fly up to 15 passengers direct from London to the West coast of the US , Rio de Janeiro or Singapore with one stop-off . |
| 2 | The draft prospectus was accompanied by balance sheets for the water authorities projecting their finances 10 years ahead . |
| 3 | The pressure to change emerged out of the recession in the early 1980s and the increasing incursion of the Japanese into world markets with productivity levels light years ahead of European competitors . |
| 4 | WHEN Ian McGeechan made his oft-quoted remark in Australia last summer that David Sole was ‘ a player 10 years ahead of his time ’ , the Lions ' coach neatly summed up the collective view of the touring party . |
| 5 | It was a curious evening , a backward look to pieces in which could be seen the seeds of the choreographic gift that was to develop , sometimes into epic stagings , in the years ahead . |
| 6 | Pugin ( who designed the Houses of Parliament with Sir Charles Barry ) , was fifty years ahead of his time . |
| 7 | Most large banks already meet the BIS standards , two years ahead of schedule . |
| 8 | But privatisation offers the best hope of producing even bigger gains in the years ahead . |
| 9 | It is interesting to think that had they snatched — or preferably caught cleanly — that victory , the pattern of English Test cricket might have been changed for years ahead , for , as the other four matches were all drawn , a victorious first series might have given Botham 's captaincy the shove it needed to get airborne . |
| 10 | We think that the UK is bullish in the years ahead and we are backing our judgement with further investment proposals . ’ |
| 11 | So he left a very deep impression on me ; it was something I knew I had to work towards in the years ahead . |
| 12 | I am only 19 and there are lots of years ahead of me . |
| 13 | I 'm interested in things outside of entertainment as well , and although I feel I 'm older than 21 , I have to remind myself that I am 21 and I 've got a lot of years ahead . ’ |
| 14 | Fashioon : Light years ahead |
| 15 | Nicholas Hytner is booked up years ahead on both opera and theatre . |
| 16 | People should try to think several years ahead , considering factors such as access to hospitals and choice of GPs , he suggests . |
| 17 | It was still predominantly a rural District and although the numbers of manual workers were slowly declining the full impact of mechanisation in agriculture , workshop and factory lay some years ahead . |
| 18 | In attempting to formulate some of the constraints and challenges likely to face farmers in the years ahead one was conscious that today 's responses were coloured by today 's situations . |
| 19 | The 1750s were the years of the Glasgow Academy of Fine Arts , jointly supported by the University and Glasgow businessmen , a brave adventure ten years ahead of the Academy in London . |
| 20 | Keeping control of public spending will enable us to cut taxes while bringing the Government 's Budget back towards balance in the years ahead . |
| 21 | In the years ahead we will concentrate particularly on the bypass programme . |
| 22 | This is a major boost to the Northern Ireland quarry industry and the Port of Belfast means to play its full part in seeing that this export trade is expanded even further in the years ahead . |
| 23 | This was because the process of decommissioning was expected to take place so many years ahead that its costs were easily discounted into the future . |
| 24 | Everyone was looking forwards , talking of the twentieth century a mere six years ahead . |
| 25 | The increase of corporate involvement has helped greatly in achieving the Lake District 's Appeal 1987–89 target of £2 million two years ahead of schedule . |
| 26 | As David Trippier from the Department of the Environment said , this is two-and-a-half years ahead of the schedule laid down by the Montreal protocol — and the government would have liked it even faster . |
| 27 | Physical targets were mostly achieved four or five years ahead of schedule ( FAO 1982a : 67 ) , although there were shifts in the emphasis between sub-targets ( e.g. from fruit and nut trees to long rotation species ) . |
| 28 | But architects were not alone in hoping that the years ahead would bring peace and reconstruction to Iran and Iraq . |
| 29 | This aims to produce an annual income looking fifty years ahead which must be sufficient to make up the operating deficit . |
| 30 | The reason is not simply that the developer has little experience of historic buildings , but that the pension fund or insurance company buying it wants a building which is effectively new , with a sure life of many years ahead of it . |