Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] following [num] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in a particular year Dr A publishes four papers , which are cited an average of 15 times by other authors during the following five years , then they have been useful . |
| 2 | Carmichael 's sexism — not that the word existed : ‘ the role of women in the struggle is prone ’ — and the obsession with struggle elsewhere and male intellectuals ' struggles here with an uncomprehending world , threw down enough issues to sustain a variety of competing tendencies , articles , and books for the following five years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In 1576 Simon Bowyer , gentleman usher to Queen Elizabeth , was granted a licence to buy and sell 500 sarplers of wool in the following ten years ; and in 1590 he received a commission to act as sole informer against those who infringed certain statutes controlling the wool trade . |
| 5 | Its most controversial suggestion to cut the financial burden on the state was to phase out SERPS over the following three years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Next year the EC has to make a budget plan for the following five years . |
| 8 | He returned again , having left the German army , at fairly regular intervals during the following two years , and one could not help noticing with some alarm the deterioration he underwent from one visit to the next . |
| 9 | The Philips Report ( HMSO 1954 ) forecast little change in the dependency ratio overall in the following twenty-five years ( 1954–79 ) , on the assumption that the same proportion of persons would continue to be employed in each age-group . |
| 10 | The period of intensive fieldwork lasted from the summer of 1983 to the summer of 1984 , but there was continuing contact with both companies over the following two years . |
| 11 | The first part of the relief becomes available one full year after disposal of the shares , and the rest is available in equal instalments over the following nine years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | When these targets had been achieved , with increased skill and investment levels showing up in higher productivity , the proposal would be to implement a higher national minimum wage for all workers , aiming for 60 per cent of average earnings over the following five years . |
| 14 | In 1873 Gladstone 's government passed the Judicature Act ( succeeded by further statutes over the following two years ) . |
| 15 | This is a very important way of handling statistics , is n't it , in a sense , I mean , if you 're talking about , in another context , if you talk about recidivism , and , and you say forty percent of people who go into prison reoffend within the following five years , that 's the down side , or you could say sixty percent do n't , or sixty percent keep out , and it 's all a question of how you actually phrase it . |
| 16 | The World Bank announced on July 10 that Egypt was to receive a total of US$8,000 million from about 30 governments and international institutions over the following two years . |
| 17 | New medium-term targets aimed at progressively reducing the public-sector deficit over the following three years were also adopted . |
| 18 | The grant for 1988 falls short by £7000 and is one a reducing scale for the following 3 years after which we are told there will be no further grant . |
| 19 | Most spectacularly of all , the Soviet leader announced a reduction of 500,000 in the size of Soviet armed forces over the following two years , including reductions in the number of divisions in both Europe and Asia and changes in the structure of the forces that remained ( including the withdrawal of a large number of tanks ) so that their purposes became more clearly peaceful . |
| 20 | The rest took early retirement at different points over the following three years . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | On grant aid the Council will be able to give details of the budget for revenue grant aid for 1988/89 , and indicate the position as far as is known on the likely budgets for the following two years . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Under this procedure , each summer a committee of officials called the Public Expenditure Scrutiny Committee ( PESC ) prepares a report forecasting public expenditure over the following five years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This involved setting targets each year for the growth of money supply over the following four years : the targets got progressively tighter over the four years , thus ‘ putting the squeeze on inflation ’ . |