Example sentences of "years will " 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 If your goal is a college scholarship , the odds are very high that attending one for a few years will lead to a number of scholarship offers from top-notch college tennis programmes in the United States .
3 And who knows how many years will then have passed since George Orwell wrote about his ideal pub ?
4 Few appointments made by the Civil Service Commission in recent years will be so crucial , not just to the efficient running of the welfare state , but to the progress of the most significant Civil Service reform this century .
5 The achievements of the past 10 years will be jeopardised not only by the present bout of inflation , but even more by a general loss of confidence in the Government 's ability to deal with it .
6 The top rate of finance , giving the whole of your mobility supplement for five years will not cover the cost of most cars , so you will have to find a substantial deposit .
7 An editorial in The Times , a firm supporter of Thatcherite policies , could ask on 3 May 1985 : ‘ If these obstructions to a society , based on enterprise and shorn of its collectivist illusions , can not be dismantled in six years , what evidence is there that twelve years will be any better ? ’
8 And anyone wanting enlightenment on Soviet penetration in the war years will be sorely disappointed in this book .
9 The principal characteristic of African economies in the next fifty years will then be an urban market which will in aggregate be very valuable but will have a low income per head .
10 Probably not , even though the next couple of years will be tough and even though Mr Bishko has a habit of losing senior managers with an abandon bordering on carelessness .
11 With luck , a few years will bring a greatest hits compilation .
12 ‘ Obviously , anyone who has been oppressed for 40 years will have among their number people who want to make the complete lunge towards a so-called free market utopia .
13 The Government forecasts that the number of people out of work for more than two years will fall from 550,000 in April 1989 to 325,000 by April 1991 .
14 These workers have traditionally been the toughest and most radical , and employers all over America are aware that if Pittston can break the ‘ mother union ’ , then the attempts to gain the ground lost in the Reagan years will be stillborn .
15 There are those who suppose that ‘ giving the other side a turn ’ for a few years will invigorate democracy and somehow advance the cause of moderation .
16 Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future .
17 The next five years will also see the implementation of tests for seven , 11 and 14 year olds ; a shift towards ‘ on the job ’ teacher training ; and the transformation of some grant-maintained institutions into grammar schools .
18 The next five years will be a battle — much of it fought in the Governor 's quarterly meeting with Lu Ping , head of Peking 's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office .
19 According to the magazine ENDS , it seems likely that ‘ at least five years will elapse before further NSAs are [ then ] designated unless the government 's hand is forced by EEC legislation . ’
20 Cargo forecasts suggest that a growth rate of 11.4 percent for Europe-Far East trade over the next 20 years will be more than double the expected increase across the North Atlantic .
21 ‘ Rumoured Golf Links at Bolney ’ and one wonders what the next 80 years will bring .
22 ‘ From now on , the infant will be reared as I explained , and not for at least twenty years will we be able to report in much detail on the results of our investigations , although preliminary papers will be published in the professional press from time to time .
23 Renewals for further periods of three years will not be unreasonably refused where the Data has been incorporated into composite works which the Licensee wishes to maintain . ’
24 Radioactive poisons with a half life of thousands of years will be routinely handled in all sorts of locations , even some farms .
25 A bold new claim , bandied about with some confidence by those in the know — those who have studied the demographics , who foresee that 80% of new jobs in the next five years will be taken by women .
26 The major development over the next 20 years will be the 90% growth in gas consumption and the 80% rise in gas production .
27 I think I am only saying that anyone who has followed the history of this controversy over the last twenty years will already see reason to think that the friction produced by quarrelling among good causes is enormous and it is a luxury that we simply can not afford .
28 We should note that over the next decade about half the children aged from 7–11 years will not have adequate conditions to attend primary school normally in terms of the law on the National System of Education and that many other older children will be likewise unable to attend school .
29 An apple tree heeds to be sown , weeded , grafted and pruned and then only after a number of years will it bear fruit .
30 Statistics over five or ten years will provide definite evidence of increasing , stagnant or declining per capita incomes .
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