Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [art] next few years " in BNC.

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1 We expect BP Exploration 's production to remain broadly at 1992 's level for the next few years and then to rise after 1995 .
2 State employees will trap and shoot up to 75 per cent of the wolves in a region southwest of Fairbanks and keep numbers to that level for the next few years .
3 Tordjman expects software products to grow faster this year than engineering and systems integration , but he would like to maintain the same division of revenue for the next few years .
4 Mr Clark said legislation ensuring re-inspection could come into force within the next few years and he warned that it could result in hotels being prosecuted if they contravened their Fire Certificates .
5 The transitions mentioned above are envisaged to become ‘ standard development ’ for expert systems in aircraft maintenance in the next few years .
6 We prove it to them by demonstrating that the money we need for research and investment over the next few years is in place .
7 He likes Elland Road , he 's built up a squad that looks like it could develop into a REAL force over the next few years & he 'd be mad to leave for a job where he has a competition every 2 years/a draw 's a bad result/and nobody likes him !
8 Though the move could help to speed up investment in a few large projects , there were fears last night that the sudden change in the offshore tax system could hit the bulk of the smaller oil and gas projects which were expected to provide most of the work for the offshore supply industry over the next few years .
9 When Nizan returned to France in January 1935 , he returned not disillusioned , chastened perhaps , but above all convinced of the necessity to become involved in the great moral crusade of the next few years , the struggle against fascism .
10 No one could foresee that over the course of the next few years the steel industry would be successfully reorganized and taken into the private sector .
11 It is thus possible that in the course of the next few years Council will assign the headship for a period to the holder of the Halford Mackinder Professorship , who will among those carrying an obligation to serve if so requested .
12 A HAVEN Mr Alan Milburn , Labour prospective parliamentary candidate for the town , said the charter was ‘ a declaration of intent that will be fulfilled during the course of the next few years . ’
13 A recent survey found that one third of women employees planned to have a child during the next few years .
14 The restructuring and the exit from the Sparcsystems business have left Opus with a creditor repayment plan for the next few years .
15 The plan for the next few years is to implement the strategy by significant additional investment in staff and equipment and the internal networking of buildings .
16 Other sections on which it is hoped to complete work in the next few years included :
17 Other sections which it is hoped to complete work in the next few years include :
18 ‘ It is possible that a slow economic recovery and lower beef prices will coincide to increase consumption in the next few years but in the wake of consumer scares , such as BSE , the market needs a push .
19 His deeds had made his name synonymous with victory ; the Almoravids feared and hated him ; he had overcome all his enemies and won his way back to the position of Alfonso 's vassal — although , in fact , he overshadowed the King in such a way that Alfonso virtually faded from the scene in the next few years .
20 Moody 's expects that the telephone companies will be able to improve their financial flexibility over the next few years , largely offsetting increasing competitive risks .
21 Now it seems to me , that er , the watch-word for our policy development work over the next few years , must be effective co-ordination with our members and the wider voluntary sector .
22 An important strategic requirement over the next few years will be to make progress with the resolution of these questions which bear crucially on the structure of a collegiate university and raise fundamental questions about the nature of undergraduate teaching at Oxford and its relationship with graduate teaching and supervision .
23 Mr Tabiner , 40 , sees the unitary issue as one of the major issues for the council over the next few years .
24 The weakness in passenger traffic , which fell 8 p.c last year , and operating losses have not prevented the airline from launching the most successful expansion programme among European airlines so far , in a bid to be among the few groups which are expected to survive deregulation over the next few years .
25 Howard Davies , the commission 's controller , says that , as schools are given more financial and managerial independence over the next few years , authorities should monitor quality on behalf of ratepayers and parents , rather than pretending that all their schools are equally good .
26 The woman wore a dress that seemed very short when I recalled the picture through the next few years : broad shoulders , a straight skirt that hung the way it did — I know now — because it had some rayon in it .
27 The company believes that 40 per cent of company cars will be diesel within the next few years , following Gallup research carried out for Shell Oil U.K.
28 ‘ In addition , we have a number of significant discoveries awaiting development , which will contribute substantially to a rising production and cash flow profile over the next few years , ’ he added .
29 According to MacWeek , the development will be the first fruits of a planned family of multi-environment technologies that the company is calling Companion , which also involves plans for a thorough overhaul of the Macintosh interface over the next few years .
30 Mr Cohen said there was ‘ great scope for building up a British-based group hand tools business over the next few years . ’
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