Example sentences of "within 20 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | lo ensure that everyone 's nitrate levels stayed under 50 mg/litre the NCG estimated that immediate capital spending of £50 million would be needed , and £150 million would be required within 20 years . |
| 2 | Fourth , within 20 years , we will double the number of students in higher education , with at least in three young adults participating by the year 2000 . |
| 3 | Within 20 years , factories have come and gone , and sidings are now redundant . |
| 4 | But last month , the Swedish government renewed a promise to close down the nuclear plants within 20 years ( This Week , 26 January ) . |
| 5 | Within 20 years the instrument will be brown and by the time it is 200 years old it will be virtually black . ’ |
| 6 | Within 20 years the Prussians had ruined what remained of Danzig 's grain trade and the population of the city had plummeted to what it had been at the end of the fourteenth century . |
| 7 | Within 20 years and army of ‘ bluebellies ’ , little different in appearance form the troopers led by Crook and Miles on the Southern Plains , would be transformed into a huge khaki-clad nation at arms , facing the machine guns , tanks and heavy artillery of the most professional army in the world in the trenches of France . |
| 8 | E.D. Simon , Chairman of Manchester Housing Committee ( 1919–23 ) and Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health ( 1931 ) was confident of being able to rebuild Britain within 20 years : ‘ If we can tackle the problems of peace with anything like the same sense of purpose , the same devotion , and the same efficiency as we have shown during the war , the Rebuilding of Britain will be child 's play ’ ( Simon , 1945 , p. 228 ) . |
| 9 | In 1963 there had been 10.5 million vehicles , so what was involved was a doubling within 10 years and nearly a trebling within 20 years . |
| 10 | There 's never anyone there within 20 years of 50 and when people stare at me they 're either thinking I 'm a pervert who 's going to come over and feel their bottom when the band are on or I 'm ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio . ’ |
| 11 | Realeat founder Greg Sams predicts that within 20 years half of us will have a vegetable-based diet , and the greatest swing has been seen among the young . |
| 12 | Unless we do something now , heaths will vanish within 20 years . |
| 13 | There 's never anyone there within 20 years of 50 and when people stare at me they 're either thinking I 'm a pervert who 's going to come over and feel their bottom when the band are on or I 'm ‘ that bloke ’ from the radio . ’ |
| 14 | The Department of Energy has been under pressure to expand its efforts on renewable energy after a report by departmental advisers concluded that Britain could generate half its electricity from natural sources within 20 years , a point also made by several environmental groups . |