Example sentences of "[noun] billion [prep] the next " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is estimated by the Russian government that Russia alone will require $30 billion over the next five years simply to stabilise its oil production , ’ he added . |
| 2 | SHELL has passed up potential profits of hundreds of millions of pounds and revenue of about £1 billion over the next few years after deciding not to take up its full rights in a major oil find west of Shetland . |
| 3 | To tackle these and other problems , the water companies are investing £28 billion in the next nine years . |
| 4 | Fields is confident that Prabhakar , who now directs ARPA 's $300-million microelectronics technology office , can run an agency whose budget is expected to quadruple to $1.4 billion in the next four years . |
| 5 | " We will be spending £26 billion over the next 10 years to put right years of neglect , and that includes investments in sewage works . " |
| 6 | Last year Freedom was expected to cost $15 billion over the next five years ; when it comes back , moderately foreshortened , at $7 billion , why should anyone believe the new price ? |
| 7 | The total cost to the electricity generating industry , it said , would be £6 billion over the next 10 years . |
| 8 | Qatar , which produced some 20 million tonnes of oil in 1984 , and exports steel , fertilizers and petrochemicals , plans to spend some $4–6 billion over the next seven years on a project to export liquefied gas from its vast North Field . |
| 9 | ANALYSTS and advisers were yesterday lining up the next series of state asset sales and trying to see how the Government could increase the projected £19 billion over the next three years to reduce borrowing and fund tax cuts . |
| 10 | As part of the deal he may be forced to sell assets worth $2 billion within the next three years . |
| 11 | The White House wants to see stations that could come in at either $5 billion , $7 billion or $9 billion over the next five years . |
| 12 | My predecessor planned to borrow the thick end of £100 billion in the next three years . |
| 13 | If the Polish Government adheres to the IMF programme , further loans of up to $1.67 billion over the next 18 months will be available from the World Bank . |
| 14 | Elaborate pricing mechanisms — the K-factors and all the rest — were set up by the government before the sell-off ; they were aimed at helping the industry , which had long been a victim of under-investment , to pay for a capital-spending programme of at least £18 billion over the next decade . |
| 15 | But Mr Delors had made it clear he wants the annual budget to rise to £73 billion over the next seven years . |
| 16 | The tax signalled that he was both tough on the deficit ( it will raise , he hopes , $12 billion over the next five years , and $12 billion a year thereafter ) and serious about the environment ( the more people have to pay for energy , the less likely they are to squander it . ) |
| 17 | Mr Dewar , Labour spokesman on social security , said at the weekend that Chancellor Norman Lamont 's Budget proposals to increase tax by £17 billion over the next three years would punish the nation — particularly the low paid . |