Example sentences of "course of the [num ord] [num] year " in BNC.

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1 If he could have foretold the course of the next two years , they would have seemed incredible .
2 During the course of the next two years , Somerset 's government brought about a number of Protestant reforms , including the dissolution of the chantries and the introduction of an English Prayer Book and a new liturgy for the mass .
3 But in matters of local importance , he was prepared to accept the testimony of the local community : in this he was following the ancient practice of the Church with regard to canonization , which was replaced by a formal centralized procedure in the course of the next hundred years .
4 Chips became part of the British diet during the 19th century and over the course of the next hundred years , according to the Frozen Food Information Service , fish and chips became not only a national institution , but also a vital source of nutrition for the working class .
5 As a result , in the course of the next six years all 30 polytechnics were officially designated and the binary system of education was consolidated .
6 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 .
7 Roman Italy again provides an analogy : the roads built by people like Aemilius Lepidus in the first half of the second century physically facilitated the political and cultural unification of Italy in the course of the next 150 years .
8 The members of this parliament immediately set about introducing legislation to reform abuses within the English Catholic church , and during the course of the next seven years they passed a series of statutes which would lead that church into schism and formalize its break with the Roman papacy , which has lasted down to the present day .
9 In the course of the next three years over 5 million small farmers moved from individual farms to larger settlements , often including several hundred families .
10 It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that .
11 During the course of the last hundred years or so educationists have progressively sold out to those who have imposed upon the education system the responsibility for attesting attainment and selecting suitable candidates .
12 And the appearance and the style and the treatment of , the kind of materials which come out of history publishers really represents a kind of revolution in the subject , this subject , in the course of the last twenty-five years .
13 And I think that the revolution in history which has taken place over the course of the last twenty-five years has been a revolution which has been fuelled by people 's curiosity to study things which previously had not been studied , rather than just to take some formal statement of what seemed to be important , which is what the chroniclers took , or some propaganda statement , which is what the Tudors took and what the seventeenth century historians took , or indeed to write very academic history , which is what professional historians have tended to do , over the course of the last erm forty or fifty years .
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