Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the next four years " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's overall aim was to freeze spending on state-owned enterprises , social security and defence for the next four years . |
| 2 | Subject to budgetary approval , the plan ratified by both houses of the federal parliament will mean growth of 16 per cent pa in the science budget for the next four years . |
| 3 | The rate of ozone depletion in the Antarctic has slowed in the past few years , but the researchers say that their model predicts " a return to more rapid depletion during the next four years as the solar minimum is approached . " |
| 4 | It would seem that Madam ( please call me ‘ Falklands ’ ) Thatcher has decided that 145 local tax collection offices should be closed over the course of the next four years , with the loss of 3000 Inland Revenue jobs . |
| 5 | He said Hong Kong could face a ‘ period of political siege for the next four years followed by an abrupt transition to a harsher and more repressive regime . ’ |
| 6 | Lewis can become a multi-millionaire over the next four years if he becomes our first world heavyweight champion for nearly a century — and defends successfully . |
| 7 | In 1891 , when shipbuilding was distressed , Harland was persuaded to introduce a system of cost plus contracts for favoured customers which secured a large volume of business over the next four years . |
| 8 | The review will take place over the next four years with all the changes in place by 1998 . |
| 9 | The ACCA refuses to sanction the event at any other location , and Sydney , despite claiming rights to stage the race for the next four years , has yet to build a Grand Prix circuit . |
| 10 | Claiming that a coup was being planned even before he introduced economic austerity policies on taking office three years previously , Pérez told foreign correspondents on Feb. 9 that he intended to continue with his economic policies but would bring forward a $4,000 million social project to improve health care , education and social welfare over the next four years . |
| 11 | At any rate , they are the best marks that were to appear on his performance schedule over the next four years , when his average ran at 56.4 per cent . |
| 12 | and the party as a whole played only a junior role for the next four years . |
| 13 | So I left again and lived with this other woman for the next four years , but the relationship was ruined because Marie would n't leave us alone . |
| 14 | A suggested admissions policy for the next four years is that new first year students should be admitted each October to bring the total student numbers to 10% more than the previous October . |
| 15 | The £3.2m investment in the pottery includes the provision of new kilns and is expected to result in a trebling of the workforce over the next four years . |
| 16 | THE risk of war with the former Soviet Union may have vanished , but plenty of fighting is still going on ; not least over which military bases should be shut down as the Pentagon tries to trim $1.1 billion from its budget over the next four years . |
| 17 | His pledge to halve the deficit over the next four years is largely based on eliminating 100,000 government jobs . |
| 18 | The final purchase price will be between $17m and $28m depending on revenue performance during the next four years . |
| 19 | Ms Judy Weleminsky , director of the fellowship , said the Government should allocate the sum over the next four years to prevent patients — many suffering from schizophrenia — being discharged without proper supervision . |
| 20 | No wonder the Socialists ' manifesto offers measures to reduce unemployment , invest Ptas500 billion ( $1 billion ) in training over the next four years , and build 500,000 new houses . |
| 21 | Average annual growth over the next four years was forecast at 2 per cent . |
| 22 | Its big rival , ILFC , basedin Beverly Hills , Calafornia , already has 10% of those due for delivery over the next four years . |
| 23 | That decision — and many others involving the course of science over the next four years — may rest with a new group of about 30 senior administrators convened two weeks ago by Gibbons and Bowman Cutter of the National Economic Council . |
| 24 | His decision was based on a prediction that South-East Asia 's economies will grow at 6.9% a year for the next four years . |
| 25 | And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years . |
| 26 | The EC had , among other things , ( i ) financed the construction of a road through one of Zaïre 's forests so as to increase production at a meat processing plant ; ( ii ) financed timber extraction projects in Equatorial Guinea designed to quadruple timber production over the next four years ; and ( iii ) financed the Carajás iron ore project in the state of Pará , Brazil , which had destroyed much of the Amazon rainforest , had led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians after the opening up of their habitat 10 years earlier and had consumed 4,000,000 tonnes of charcoal each year to smelt the iron ore into pig iron . |
| 27 | Similarly , in Equatorial Guinea , the EC is financing a timber extraction project intended to quadruple production over the next four years . |