Example sentences of "next ten years " in BNC.

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1 For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent .
2 We regretted the decision for the next ten years .
3 Within the next ten years much of the Amazon Rainforest could be wiped out .
4 Over the next ten years , China will become economically more liberal , internationally more friendly :
5 Mr Li has made it plain that there will be no more special economic zones in the next ten years , and the praise in the communiqué for the Dengist reforms smacks of insincere ritual .
6 The government is also aware that during the next ten years Japan has its last chance to provide more of the amenities that most westerners take for granted .
7 Japan 's 4,000km expressway system is to be lengthened to 11,500km over the next ten years .
8 It plans to invest $6 billion-7 billion in its telephone network over the next ten years .
9 This led into a technical and commercial appraisal of European competition and the anticipated market changes over the next ten years .
10 The financial plan showed the investment impact on sales , profit and return on investment per year over the next ten years , while the financing plan described how the investment was to be financed : namely , from borrowings in the early years until the plan became self-financing from funds accrued from current operations , in year four .
11 Now preparing for the next ten years , Stevo refuses to be predictable .
12 Global temperatures will increase as much as three degrees centigrade in the next ten years due to damage to the ozone layer .
13 The number of two-car families doubled in the Fifties to reach fifteen per cent of American households ( and would double again in the next ten years ) .
14 He would undoubtedly have watched with anxiety the growing troubles over finance and staff during the next ten years and , by 1722 , the abandonment of the Garden was a possibility .
15 For the next ten years , Richard II concentrated on building up a reputation with a reputably good government beside him against his powerful uncles .
16 During 1950 , as much as two thousand million dollars were contributed , and that amount was increased eight times in the next ten years .
17 In the next ten years , there were twelve different governments , although the discovery of oil in Sicily , in that year , helped the Italian economy .
18 Jussieu wandered through South America for the next ten years .
19 For the next ten years their father was posted from one naval establishment to another , around most of the strategically retained vestiges of the British Empire , from Hong Kong to Aden , to Gibraltar , to Singapore and finally to Malta , and Alex and Victoria , rejoining the family during holidays , became seasoned travellers .
20 I tell them to take their time ; it is hoped that the dog will be with them for the next ten years or more — what are a few minutes ?
21 Within twenty-four hours of the publication of the Report , Boyle rose in the House of Commons to announce that its recommendations on the scale of necessary expansion were accepted by the Government , that funds were being made available to cover the next ten years , including £650,000,000 for capital expenditure on building by universities .
22 Thus he and Barbarossa were to become close friends as well as working together , for the next ten years .
23 The next ten years of international arguments about whaling are best known as the period in which many more countries joined or rejoined the IWC , when the Indian Ocean was designated as a whale sanctuary and when the sperm whale was effectively protected after 200 years of exploitation .
24 If we can work together to achieve both sets of rights in the next ten years or so , we will have done , I think , a fantastic job .
25 The changing role of the governing body was also perceived as a key issue : as one head put it , ‘ There could be conflict over the next ten years as the governing bodies try to claim their legal rights and powers from the professionals . ’
26 Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant .
27 At the beginning of the First World War he sailed for the United States of America and spent the next ten years dividing his teaching between there and England .
28 Next , he lost to Bill Cousens after 111 rounds , but instead of being discouraged went on to beat all foes in the next ten years .
29 Now that the Institution 's policy for the provision of part-time education has been made clear for , say , the next ten years , it is most likely that all new entrants to the profession will be studying for surveying degrees or diplomas and the profession will have finally become a graduate one .
30 For the next ten years I lived in London .
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