Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [num ord] 50 year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Human population expansion is threatening to lead to unprecedented extinctions of plants and animals over the next 50 years , according to a new report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO ) . |
| 2 | Hughie Gallacher 's career was a microcosm of the kind of scandals that would decorate Scottish football over the next 50 years . |
| 3 | That may not be too far off if the progress of the last 50 years is anything to go by . |
| 4 | March 7th was one of the most momentous days in British sport during the last 50 years and , when our English team achieved the first back-to-back Grand Slam in almost 70 years , we are snatched away to watch highlights of Scotland v France . |
| 5 | ( iii ) Discussion should bring out examples of words and expressions which tend to undergo very rapid change in use or meaning — eg terms of approbation ( wicked , brill ) ; differences in the use and meanings of words as used by pupils , their parents and grandparents — eg wireless , radio , tranny , receiver ; and new words that have become part of the English vocabulary during the last 50 years or so , eg computer , astronaut , macho . |
| 6 | It has been known since the 1970s that the vehicles which have dramatically increased our mobility in the last 50 years have also constituted a grave danger . |
| 7 | Some of the consequences for this group include over 120 spontaneous leukaemias during the next 50 years and an increased risk of genetic disorders in future generations ( Anspaugh et al. , 1988 ) . |
| 8 | And most shops in the region are now dusting off the platform shoes and diamante brooches , which have been centre of the autumn collections of the last 50 years . |
| 9 | The UK has lost 45 per cent of its ancient forest in the last 50 years , and only 1.5 per cent of the original forest cover remains , according to figures published by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) . |
| 10 | Every team does fieldwork which combines ethnography , sociology , economics and history , linked by a Rfrom belowS investigation concerning the last 50 years and more . |
| 11 | I ca n't believe there 's going to be the same sort of changes in the next 50 years . |
| 12 | Though it has largely been eclipsed by schizophrenia as the diagnostic vogue in the last 50 years , MPD is once again attracting the interest of psychiatric researchers . |
| 13 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |
| 14 | He belonged to no movement but his attitude could be described , like that of many good British painters of the last 50 years , as being in the tradition of Vuillard and Sickert . |
| 15 | We might pause at this juncture to ask just why the British Government should assume an obligation to provide decent housing for the working classes , when in other countries rather different policies were pursued ; also why Britain embarked , consciously or otherwise , on a massive shift in housing tenure over the next 50 years and more . |
| 16 | Predictions on the basis of the Met Office model suggest that an additional 400 million people would become at risk from hunger over the next 50 years . |
| 17 | ( 1988 ) estimate 17,000 additional fatal cancers in Europe in the next 50 years but highlight that the Chernobyl legacy adds an increment of only 0.01 per cent to European lifetime fatal cancer risk . |
| 18 | The rampant sexism of the climbing and walking fraternity over the last 50 years has left a whole generation of older women with the legacy of being expected to have the white-bearded , old sod 's tea ready for him on the table when he comes home from a fabulous day out on the hills . |
| 19 | Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ? |
| 20 | They and their disused railway lines remind us of wealth in the last century — but unemployment during the last 50 years . |
| 21 | Ornithologists have been fighting to save the bird from extinction for the last 50 years . |
| 22 | ‘ Parks ’ as the photographer Norman Parkinson was known to every model of the last 50 years ( a good many of whom he discovered ) , was one of the great fashion photographers of the century . |
| 23 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |
| 24 | These developments in British economic thinking are shown by the publication of two remarkable business texts , which were widely read and discussed in the early 1960s. first , appearing under the title Management 's Mission in a New Society , were 20 provocative papers , originally written in celebration of the first 50 years of the Harvard Business School . |
| 25 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 26 | The forecast is based on assumptions of variable temperature rises across the region during the next 50 years , from around 1.1 to 4.2 degrees centigrade . |
| 27 | Friends , families and members of the community may be another source for photographs of the last 50 years or so . |
| 28 | In Java , homegardens have increased in extent in the last 50 years and now account for c. 18.5 per cent of agricultural land . |