Example sentences of "next [num] years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next eight years he applied himself to the development and perfection of the colour printing process which brought him international fame . |
| 2 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 3 | The Bradens moved to Toronto where they did well in CBC productions , and in 1949 moved on to London where for the next 30 years they made quite an impression at the BBC , both in radio and in television . |
| 4 | For the next 30 years he was involved in the practical application of the law of wills and trusts . |
| 5 | For the better part of the next forty years they were to be the decisive restraints . |
| 6 | Joyce went on the stage in 1939 — by accident rather than design — and during the next forty years she became both an international entertainer and a national treasure . |
| 7 | He went to live at Stourhead after his mother 's death in 1742 , and over the next forty years he became a discriminating collector and patron of the arts , laying the foundations of an important library , but above all he transformed the landscape at Stourhead , creating the lake and the classical temples , which so vividly recall a Claudian idyll . |
| 8 | Although hailed at the time as ‘ the most important discovery in England [ and perhaps ] … of greater importance than any other yet made at home or abroad ’ , during the next forty years it became increasingly difficult to reconcile this hominid with the burgeoning human fossil record from Asia and Africa . |
| 9 | For the next thirteen years they offered no really serious opposition to government policies : but their refusal in 1787 to accept proposals for important new taxes and tax reforms was a crucial step in the destruction of the old regime in France . |
| 10 | It clearly is not the case , that , we have heard from the city this morning , and in the city alone windfalls have been progressing at the rate of eighty per annum , if it was only half that rate over the next thirteen years we would see five hundred more houses , and that excludes windfalls from the rest of the Greater York area , excluding the city of York . |
| 11 | For the next 10 years it basked in its monopoly , with radio still supreme , as TV came slowly out of the shadows . |
| 12 | If his fortunes improve over the next six years you are still entitled to collect on your judgement debt . |
| 13 | During the next six years he held pleas of the Forests in six counties . |
| 14 | During the next six years he published over two hundred books , his imprint receiving Book Society accolades and design awards and sustaining more posthumous interest and admiration than any other mainstream publisher of that period . |
| 15 | Over the next three years we are committed to the biggest investment in Britain 's transport infrastructure in our history . |
| 16 | Over the next three years we shall continue to upgrade the technology at our refineries to increase the production of motor fuels . |
| 17 | ‘ It is not as if we will be stuck with lorry traffic for the next three years we will be stuck with it for ever more . |
| 18 | Over the next three years it will be helping and encouraging authorities to gather information about the needs and preferences of local carers , to use this information to work out plans for improving carer support , and to ensure that caring for carers becomes an integral component of mainstream community care services . |
| 19 | The Committee for Education gave special attention to the question of college libraries and set up a working party in 1974 to advise on provision in colleges proposing to diversify their courses , and over the next three years it offered guidance on ways of assessing the quality of provision , emphasized the importance of the standing of the head of the library service or resource centre , of consultation with the library in course development , and of initiating students into making effective use of the library and learning resources . |
| 20 | I was back in England in time for the Easter term of 1931 and resumed my university life , but during the next three years I thought incessantly of that slow-flowing muddy river , of the arid , scrub-covered plains and volcanic mountains , the herds of ox and gazelle , the mat-roofed encampments , the slender , graceful figures in loincloths , attractive , armed and unpredictable . |
| 21 | For the next three years he wo n't have any choice . |
| 22 | In the next three years he was twice parachuted into Occupied France . |
| 23 | A week later the Duchess returned to France , and for the next fourteen years she lived alone in Paris . |
| 24 | For the next thirty-five years he published a spate of pamphlets and books on the subjects about which he felt strongly and the authors whom he admired deeply or disagreed with emphatically . |
| 25 | In the next ten years we shall be fortunate if we witness as productive a period for text research as that which has just ended . |
| 26 | Over the next ten years they are to fund expeditions abroad , publicising Swindon 's virtues . |
| 27 | But if we keep them for the next ten years they 're a a real bargain , if , if , if |
| 28 | For the next ten years I lived in London . |
| 29 | Over the next ten years she logged in note form details concerning her three-acre garden , trips to London and the arrival and departure of guests . |
| 30 | For the next ten years he travelled the world , visiting and working in mines and quarries in every continent . |