Example sentences of "following [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | AD 150 , falling during the following 500 years to a minimum altitude of + 0.4 m above sea-level by c . |
| 2 | During the following eight years the hyperparasite has spread rapidly and infected most of the S . |
| 3 | He is the star of the 45-second Yellow Pages plug of 1982 which was screened for the following eight years , setting something of a record in advertising circles . |
| 4 | The following fifty years , which were also the years in which Athens and the Greeks decisively rebuffed the attempts of the Persians under Darius and Xerxes to destroy their independent states , saw further moves towards the dominance of popular power in Athens , some of them directly prompted by the necessities of war . |
| 5 | That job was to last for the following eleven years . |
| 6 | Van Dyck had a hand in exporting his style to England in the 17th century ; the allure of the full-length formal portrait endured for the following 300 years . |
| 7 | During the following 2 years 38 ( 32% ) of these 119 patients died . |
| 8 | The most obvious was to seek better compounds than the original nitrogen mustards , and numerous alkylating agents emerged during the following 30 years . |
| 9 | Following the government retreat over the terms of the Directive in 1988 it was estimated that Anglian would have to spend £60-£70 million over the following 10 years to clean up the water supplies of Bedford and Norwich , along with a total 25 supplies that had been subject to derogations . |
| 10 | If the hon. Gentleman 's attitude had been noted and acted on , we should not have got on the treadmill of nuclear arms escalation for the following 10 years . |
| 11 | The Mexican federal government announced on July 15 , 1989 , that it would commit $13,750,000 to " regenerate " Mexico 's rainforest over the following 10 years . |
| 12 | In the following six years the NCNC succeeded in attracting a good deal of support amongst the Yoruba of western Nigeria . |
| 13 | Over the following six years , they would serve as merchant aircraft carriers , armed merchant cruisers , troopships , hospital ships , catapult armed merchantmen and would carry vital cargoes of fuel , food , ammunition and troops . |
| 14 | In the following three years the thesis remained on my desk , unrequested by anyone else . |
| 15 | The protection for losing authorities ( for the following three years ) will be paid for by the Exchequer , ’ Mr Hunt said , answering a demand for central funding repeated in the debate . |
| 16 | Its most controversial suggestion to cut the financial burden on the state was to phase out SERPS over the following three years . |
| 17 | The bank says it expects its new purchase to break even in the first year and to be operating at a profit of $150m-200m a year over the following three years . |
| 18 | Over the following three years , I was to see the keys again and , more often , the deeds of ownership to lost land . |
| 19 | Without the resources of the Oxford department in the following three years , Florey would probably not have been able to bring penicillin to clinical fruition . |
| 20 | The rise in the oil price after 1979 was mainly responsible not only for the growth in the share of this group of products in total imports from 1979 to 1984 but also for its decline during the following three years . |
| 21 | ‘ Lines Written at Shurton Bars ’ shows Coleridge progressing rapidly from the bland natural description contained in poems such as the one he had written in May ‘ while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb ’ , and opens the way to the ‘ Conversation Poems ’ of the following three years , where feelings of friendship and love — for Charles Lamb , the Wordsworths , his infant son Hartley — stand in close and creative relationship with luminous descriptions of nature . |
| 22 | During the following three years , Dunlop made no payment to Kilpatrick . |
| 23 | The rest took early retirement at different points over the following three years . |
| 24 | Nothing further was heard from him on that subject but in the meantime Whitbread had made contact with a Bedford surgeon , Samuel Young , who embarked on an extended trial of the remedy over the course of the following three years . |
| 25 | It was as if all that we had done … had been a school and a preparation both for that first day in which I suddenly knew how to make one-step dry photographic process and for the following three years in which we made the very vivid dream into a solid reality . |
| 26 | The newly elected Conservative government decided to reduce the extent of designated areas , through a programme of phased withdrawals , over the following three years ( see Townsend 1980 ) . |
| 27 | Protection will be phased out over the following three years ( 1991–92 to 1993–94 ) . |
| 28 | For the following three years she enjoyed a period of heady social success . |
| 29 | Does the Minister remember that before the last general election the Government promised an increase in public spending of £11.2 billion in the following three years ? |
| 30 | New medium-term targets aimed at progressively reducing the public-sector deficit over the following three years were also adopted . |